Hi,

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Vincent Torri <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> as for fork()/exec, we asked you what was better to use to help
>> Windows. No idea if you recall, but we did ask you as our initial hope
>> was to go with "fork()" only solution, you said it couldn't be
>> supported on Windows, but the fork-exec pair could. Then we followed
>> that.
>>
>>> btw, if you were doing portable code, you would use eina_file for
>>> shm_open and not shm_open directly
>>
>> http://git.profusion.mobi/cgit.cgi/antognolli/evas-cserve2/tree/src/bin/evas_cserve2_slave.c?h=cserve2#n200
>>
>> Eina file does not support PROT_WRITE. We hope it can be added later,
>> after the current version is released.
>>
>> Here we also talked to you, you mentioned that you had some ideas to
>> make the shm work for windows. Right?
>
> yes, but 'you' (that is only linux coders) use ultra specific linux
> features. Having something in Windows which emulate more or less those
> features is sometimes just impossible.
>
> question : why didn't you add PROT_WRITE to eina_file ?

I think that was due to me in part. Eina_File didn't handle it, and it
was close to the release. So I have said that it would be better to
first implement what they need directly and once the release is done,
merge the usefull part in eina.
-- 
Cedric BAIL

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