No support for sharing unnamed semaphores between processes through shared memory?

Linda Walsh cygwin@tlinx.org
Tue Sep 25 21:20:00 GMT 2012


Matt Sexton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am attempting to port to Cygwin an application that synchronizes
> between processes using unnamed semaphores in shared memory.  Both
> processes have mapped the shared memory region, one process
> initialize
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	There's a cygwin process that you have to have running
for shared memory that "hosts" or holds on to the shared
memory.

I think it is the Cygwin cygserver....(but don't kill me if I'm wrong)...

Something needs to hang around and hold onto that shared memory, or windows
will recycle it.




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