POSIX or SYSV IPC calls on cygwin

Richard H Lee ricardohenrylee@gmail.com
Thu Jun 28 16:04:00 GMT 2012


I'm looking to use IPC calls on cygwin (shared memory and semaphores). 
The posix IPC api looks saner (easier), but it looks like it was only 
brought in in cygwin 1.7 .

Am I better sticking to the SYSV IPC api? Or is the POSIX IPC api stable 
enough to use?

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