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Re: No support for sharing unnamed semaphores between processes through shared memory?


Matt Sexton wrote:
Hello,

I am attempting to port to Cygwin an application that synchronizes
between processes using unnamed semaphores in shared memory.  Both
processes have mapped the shared memory region, one process
initialize
----
	There's a cygwin process that you have to have running
for shared memory that "hosts" or holds on to the shared
memory.

I think it is the Cygwin cygserver....(but don't kill me if I'm wrong)...

Something needs to hang around and hold onto that shared memory, or windows
will recycle it.




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