Re: cygipc (and PostgreSQL) XP problem resolved!

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Jason Tishler wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> Thanks to help from Frank Seesink, I was able to finally figure out why
> cygipc and in turn PostgreSQL failed to work properly under XP in
> certain situations.  See the attached for some of the details.
>
> In summary, invoking the XP Fast User Switching feature causes XP to
> start using multiple kernel object namespaces instead of a single global
> one.  This in turn causes cygipc clients to fail to find a global
> semaphore (i.e., \BaseNamedObjects\MultiSemSem_) created by ipc-daemon
> and abort.
>
> Are you willing to accept a cygipc patch to correct this problem?

Always.

See discussion following cgf's Subject: change to "Include cygipc in the 
distribution" for more info.

--Chuck


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