Hi,
You may want to have a look at: http://www.garret.ru/~knizhnik/
You find there code for a 'Fast synchronized access to shared
memory for Windows and for i86 Unix-es".
kind regards,
Robert
> Bruce,
>
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 08:49:21PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > mlw wrote:
> > > Like I told Marc, I don't care. You spec out what you want and I'll
> > > write it for Windows.
> > >
> > > That being said, a SysV IPC interface for native Windows would be kind
> > > of cool to have.
> >
> > I am wondering why we don't just use the Cygwin shm/sem code in our
> > project, or maybe the Apache stuff; why bother reinventing the wheel.
>
> Are you referring to cygipc above? If so, they even one of the original
> cygipc authors would discourage this:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-09/msg00017.html
>
> Specifically, Ludovic Lange states the following:
> > I really think the solution would be to start again from scratch
> > another implementation, as was suggested. The way we did it was
> > quick and dirty, the goals weren't to have production systems
> > running on it but only to run prototypes. So the internal design
> > (if there is any) may not be adequate for the cygwin project.
>
> However, Rob Collins has contributed a MinGW daemon to Cygwin to support
> switching users, System V IPC, etc. So, this code base may be a more
> suitable starting point to satisfy PostgreSQL's native Win32 System V
> IPC needs.
>
> Jason
>
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