On Jan 13, 5:08 pm, Philip Semanchuk <phi...@semanchuk.com> wrote: > On Jan 13, 2009, at 4:31 PM, drobi...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Jan 13, 2:37 pm, Philip Semanchuk <phi...@semanchuk.com> wrote: > >> I was suggesting getting posix_ipc or sysv_ipc to compile against a > >> compatibility library (Cygwin?) under Windows. It sounds like you're > >> proposing something totally different, no? > > > It's not really correct to call Cygwin a compatibility library. It's > > more of a separate system. > > Thanks for the education; I'm obviously not very familiar with it. > > > In any case, the current version (1.5.25) does not support sem_unlink > > or shm_unlink so posix_ipc does not build. Cygwin 1.7, currently under > > test, will support these. I haven't tried it yet. I expect it will > > work OOTB. > > Thanks for the report. Strange that it supports the functions to open > but not close semaphores. IN any case, I'd be very happy if posix_ipc > or sysv_ipc would work with few or no modifications under Cygwin. > > Cheers > Philip
I just downloaded cygwin 1.7 and posix_ipc builds successfully. The demo appears to work. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
