On Feb 21 20:54, Pan ruochen wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to use semget function under cygwin. But get "Bad system call" error. > Do I have to install cygipc package to make these IPC functions work? > And I cannot find this package in the setup UI, so where can I > download the package? The cygipc package is deprecated for 10 years now. The functionality has been taken over by cygserver, see the Cygwin User's Guide: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygserver.html Apart from that, Cygwin comes with POSIX IPC functions, which don't require runing cygserver like the XSI functions do. See, for instance http://linux.die.net/man/3/sem_open and friends. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat