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Re: Persistence of file implemented objects
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:35:30 -0400
- Subject: Re: Persistence of file implemented objects
- References: <4FEF7DB6.6040101@gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 11:29:10PM +0100, Richard H Lee wrote:
>Various objects like fifo pipes, POSIX IPC shared memory and semaphores
>that are implemented through the filesystem in cygwin persist when the
>program abnornally terminates. They also persist through reboots, which
>is different to the behaviour on linux. This is also different with the
>case of sysV IPC + cygserver on cygwin which clears after reboots.
Please be more precise about what you are talking about.
Fifos persist on reboot on Linux or Cygwin. They live on the
filesystem. I don't see how POSIX IPC shared memory and semaphores
could persist.
cgf
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