> > the cygwin-daemon code was recently merged into CVS; the > > snapshots have > > the functionality but the daemon itself is not "turned on" by > > default. > > Just like ipcdaemon.exe, you have to start up the cygwin-daemon > > yourself. For more info, see the cygwin-developers mailing > > list archives. > > cygdaemon provides ipc and shm, but the shm is incomplete. Someone want > to fund it? (only half kidding).
Can you explain this a little bit more ? > As for it being turned on, you need to patch newlib (for the new key_t > definition) Could this perhaps not be patched in the cvs or are there compatibility issues against it ? > and cygwin (to export the functions) all shm* symbols ? > and then rebuild cygwin. > Rob >
