Hi, Drake Baker, le Mon 04 Sep 2006 01:49:25 -0500, a �crit : > I have seen conflicting information on the web concerning inter-process > mutexes in CYGWIN. I have seen outright statements that it is not > supported, and I have seen statements that ALL mutexes are inter-process by > default. Obviously, only one statement is currently correct.
Both are true :) Windows provides inter-process mutexes (you just need to give a name to CreateMutex ; every process that give the same name will get the same mutex). But cygwin doesn't provide a pthread interface for it. PTW. Samuel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
