On 2021/01/10 12:16 am, Brian Inglis wrote:
For more about Windows limitations and alternatives see:
https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_75_0/doc/html/interprocess/sharedmemorybetweenprocesses.html#interprocess.sharedmemorybetweenprocesses.sharedmemory.emulation
For the specific case of inter-process mutexes, Windows already supports
multiple processes accessing the same mutex:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sync/interprocess-synchronization
But presumably there would need to be a lot of bookkeeping by cygwin/newlib to
provide POSIX semantics on top of that.
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