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Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2001 20:18:01 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Eliminate cygwin_getshared?
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I was just perusing shared.cc and came across this ill-begotten
function.  It's cygwin's answer to eliminating
security-through-obscurity.

Is anyone aware of a use for this function?  I can't think of any
reason to export a pointer to cygwin's shared memory area.

Even though it will potentially break backward compatibility, I'd
like to eliminate it from the next release of cygwin.

Any comments?

cgf

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