POSIX Message Queues for Win32

[aureliom at crt dot com]

To all,
 
I had begun a port of the POSIX Message Queues using Pthread-Win32 but due
to time constraints I have very little time to continue.  If someone would
like to finish it and provide it to this effort I would really appreciate
it.  Anyhow, included is the source and header file. 

NOTE: 
I used Richard Steven's POSIX Message Queues source code and Win32 Memory
Mapped Files to implement it.  Hopefully I am very close but without testing
I can't be sure.
I was the one who contributed the POSIX Read/Write Locks to Pthread-Win32.
I was hoping to also contribute the POSIX Message Queues but find myself
with very little time.  

Thanks,
Aurelio Medina

 <<posix_mqueue.c>>  <<posix_mqueue.h>> 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Hugues Talbot [SMTP:Hugues.Talbot@cmis.CSIRO.AU]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 20, 2000 4:18 AM
> To:	pthreads-win32@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject:	Thank you guys, thank you!
> 
> 
> 	Hello 
> 
> 	I'd like to thank all the developers, testers, participants,
> etc, of the pthread library for win32.
> 
> 	I was expecting to spend days, if not weeks to port this 
> largish application from Unix to Windows, which of course makes
> heavy uses of threads, mutexes, etc. Not to mention sockets, and
> it's a GUI application...
> 
> 	libpthread32 made it a breeze. Not a single problem, just
> a straight recompile!
> 
> For the record, I'm using mingw32, both natively on windows (this
> is one verrry slooow compiler, my God) and as a cross-compiler from
> Linux. The base compiler is gcc-2.95.2 with latest patches and
> libraries from Mumit Khan. I got libpthread working both with 
> the CRTDLL and the MSVCRT back end, on windows NT 4.0. I used the
> excellent advice from Thomas Sailer to produce the libpthread.a
> to compile against, which should be in the FAQ I guess.
> 
> The GUI is using FLTK (www.fltk.org). Recommended if you are going
> to do some cross-platform GUI work.
> 
> 
> 	Now for some additional question: how is it possible to compile
> against the pthread.lib, not the DLL, to produce a (more) static
> executable, so that I don't have to ship pthread.dll? Sorry if this
> is an elementary question, I'm new to this.
> 
> 	Also, does anyone know of a useful implementation of the
> fork() Unix system call ? 
> 
> 	And finally, does anyone know of an implementation of 
> POSIX shared memory scheme for windows? 
> 
> 	Mainly I'd like to thank you guys so much again!
> 
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>

posix_mqueue.c

posix_mqueue.h