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Re: Can MKS Toolkit and Cygwin safely co-exist on Windows servers?
- From: Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa dot com>
- To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 18:00:51 -0700
- Subject: Re: Can MKS Toolkit and Cygwin safely co-exist on Windows servers?
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On Nov 16, 2015, at 5:54 PM, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com> wrote:
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> If I were to install Cygwin, would it conflict with MKS Toolkit?
It shouldnât.
However, you cannot expect any cross-process mechanisms to work correctly across that boundary like pipes, shared memory, and other forms of IPC that donât map 1:1 to native Windows mechanisms.
(So, TCP/IP will be compatible across the boundary, since both MKS and Cygwin implement BSD sockets in terms of Winsock.)
> Secondly, I'm really confused about 32bit versus 64bit servers;
> should I just use 32bit Cygwin to be sure?
Almost certainly not: http://stackoverflow.com/a/18333049
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