Issue with shmget

sandeep_222 sandeep_222@yahoo.com
Fri Jul 30 05:27:00 GMT 2010


Hello,

I have the same problem. Could you please explicitly specify what commands I
should enter in Cygwin to enable shared memory?

Thanks.
Sandeep


Rahul Gulati wrote:
> 
> Thanks I was able to get over the issue your guess was
> right CYGWIN=server was not set.
> 
> Rahul
> 
> --- Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU> reformatted.
>> 
>> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Rahul Gulati wrote:
>> 
>> > --- Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@XX.XXX.XXX> wrote:
>> 
>> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> > > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Rahul Gulati wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Hi,
>> > > >
>> > > > I am new to cygwin and trying to port existng
>> Linux
>> > > > based implementation of shared memory on
>> cygwin.
>> > > >
>> > > > I am having issues with shmget call. I tried
>> to debug
>> > > > and found out that everytime I try to call
>> shmget
>> > > > function I get an error and the main thread
>> exits:
>> > > > Program exited with code 06000
>> > > >
>> > > > cygserver is also running with default options
>> which
>> > > > includes :
>> > > > XSI IPC Shared Memory support.
>> > >
>> > > Not nearly enough information, the problem
>> reporting guidelines at
>> > > <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> were not
>> followed (e.g., no attached
>> > > cygcheck output), and your code snippet isn't
>> self-contained, doesn't
>> > > compile (even discounting Yahoo's line wrapping
>> -- next time, please
>> > > attach the code), and doesn't reproduce the bug.
>>  In the absense of
>> > > the facts, I can only offer a WAG: does $CYGWIN
>> contain "server" when
>> > > you run your program?
>> > > 	Igor
>> >
>> > Will the system call work if i stop the daemon and
>> > just have cygserver running with default
>> options???
>> 
>> You have not provided enough information for anyone
>> to help you.  Please
>> read and follow the instructions at
>> > Problem reports:      
>> http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>> 
>> Moreover, if I understand your question correctly,
>> it does not follow at
>> all from the guess I offered and the question I
>> asked above: when you run
>> your code (the program that you provided a snippet
>> of, not the cygserver
>> daemon), does the environment variable CYGWIN
>> contain the word "server" in
>> it, as mentioned in
>> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cygserver.README?  FYI,
>> following the instructions above would have provided
>> us with the output of
>> a tool (cygcheck) that would have answered my
>> question.
>> 	Igor
>> -- 
>> 				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
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>> igor@watson.ibm.com
>> ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		Igor Peshansky, Ph.D.
>> (name changed!)
>>      |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		old name: Igor
>> Pechtchanski
>>     '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a
>> JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!
>> 
>> "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas,
>> puisque tu t'en rends compte."
>> "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a
>> fool, there's proof enough in
>> that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"
>> 
> 
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