From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1299 invoked by alias); 23 Jul 2011 12:26:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 1165 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Jul 2011 12:26:05 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:25:51 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 5D6582CAF00; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:25:48 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:45:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Shared memory support (MIT-SHM) in 1.7? Message-ID: <20110723122548.GA21326@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com References: <20110723112102.F303F1840268@dd23514.kasserver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110723112102.F303F1840268@dd23514.kasserver.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-07/txt/msg00058.txt.bz2 On Jul 23 13:21, egerlach@aiai.de wrote: > Hi, > I've read in http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-shared-memory.html hat cygwin supports shared memory, but: "Note: for Cygwin 1.5 only". I ask me whether the documentation refers only to older versions of cygwin or also to newer versions 1.6 and 1.7. > > Who knows the answer? > > If 1.7 does not support shared memory, so I have to install legacy version 1.5 (see http://www.cygwin.com/win-9x.html ), right? I've just installed the latest version 1.7.x , so I uninstall this version (by deleting c:\cygwin, right?) an I install the setup-legacy.exe , right? No. Read http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-shared-memory.html again. It says exactly what you need to do to get XSI shared memory running. The *note* is for 1.5 only. Corinna (*) Btw., named POSIX shared mem support is available since 1.7. It's a pity that MIT-SHM extension uses XSI, rather than POSIX shared memory, since you don't need cygserver for the POSIX implementation. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/