> Since the performance of Cygwin fifos is orders of magnitude poorer than the > equivalent Linux implementation, I've been trying to find an alternative to > fifos in my Cygwin port. > > One possibility is to use a combination of real time signals (which queue) and > signalfd to provide a select()'able interface to those signals. Early test > code on Linux shows promise. > > I did a quick check and it doesn't appear that Cygwin supports the signalfd > (or eventfd) interface. Are there any plans to include this? If not what > should I look at that Cygwin does support that could provide similar > functionality? > > Thanks in advance for all your answers. > > bob > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
I was thinking, "hmmm...shared memory...that's some fast stuff...", but PC - ~ # ipcs -a Bad system call Oh well...our wonderful godlings who create this cygwin stuff for us can only make so much silk purse out of this Windoze pig. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
