Re: missing shm_open and shm_unlink

[<rnbhays at rochester dot rr dot com>]

Thank you for your quick response.

Rex Hays

---- Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: 
> On Feb 29 13:36, rnbhays@rochester.rr.com wrote:
> > In reply to Don Marquardt's initial question, Corinna indicated the shm_open and shm_unlink would  be supported in the next release. I am using the followign version using the uname -a command 
> > 
> > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2007-12-14 19:21 i686 Cygwin
> > 
> > The two commands do not seem to be supported yet. The version mentioned in Corinna's response is 1.5.24. I am what looks to be the next version. I looked in sys/mman.h and do not see these two function prototypes. Is there a plan to add this functionality?
> 
> They will be supported in the next *major* release, which will be 1.7.0.
> The 1.5.x updates since 1.5.24 are basically only bugfixes.  They don't
> get new functionalty over earlier releases.  1.7.0 will take some more
> time.  No schedule yet.  Feel free to test developer versions from
> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ as long as you don't use them in production
> environments.
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 
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