From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Persistence of file implemented objects
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 23:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120701233518.GB10276@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FF0942B.1030201@gmail.com>
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 07:17:15PM +0100, Richard H Lee wrote:
>> Fifos persist on reboot on Linux or Cygwin. They live on the
>> filesystem. I don't see how POSIX IPC shared memory and semaphores
>> could persist.
>
>Sorry, I meant unix/bsd sockets.
...which also persist on linux.
>Regarding the POSIX IPC's, they are stored in /dev . In regular *nix,
>/dev do not represent "physical" files on the filesystem, hence they do
>not persist over boot.
>
>In cygwin, they actually do represent physical files. So if they are not
>freed correctly by the program, the persist over to the next boot.
what specific interface are you talking about which creates physical
files in /dev?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-01 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-30 22:29 Richard H Lee
2012-07-01 0:35 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-07-01 18:17 ` Richard H Lee
2012-07-01 23:35 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2012-07-02 8:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
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