Hi, You may want to have a look at: http://www.garret.ru/~knizhnik/ You find there code for a 'Fast synchronized access to shared memory for Windows and for i86 Unix-es".
kind regards, Robert > Bruce, > > On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 08:49:21PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > mlw wrote: > > > Like I told Marc, I don't care. You spec out what you want and I'll > > > write it for Windows. > > > > > > That being said, a SysV IPC interface for native Windows would be kind > > > of cool to have. > > > > I am wondering why we don't just use the Cygwin shm/sem code in our > > project, or maybe the Apache stuff; why bother reinventing the wheel. > > Are you referring to cygipc above? If so, they even one of the original > cygipc authors would discourage this: > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-09/msg00017.html > > Specifically, Ludovic Lange states the following: > > I really think the solution would be to start again from scratch > > another implementation, as was suggested. The way we did it was > > quick and dirty, the goals weren't to have production systems > > running on it but only to run prototypes. So the internal design > > (if there is any) may not be adequate for the cygwin project. > > However, Rob Collins has contributed a MinGW daemon to Cygwin to support > switching users, System V IPC, etc. So, this code base may be a more > suitable starting point to satisfy PostgreSQL's native Win32 System V > IPC needs. > > Jason > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
