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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
