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From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>,
   "Michael Haubenwallner" <michael.haubenwallner@salomon.at>
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Subject: Re: cygipc-behaviour not like FreeBSD on destroying shmid
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:32:14 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
> > Another problem might be that forking with attached shm does not
> > increment the nattch-counter, but this is not really a problem
> > for me and i suppose this might not be as simple as this one.
>
>
> I *think* that would require special code in cygwin1.dll's fork()
> implementation.  Not gonna happen -- but...there is work going on to
try
> to rewrite IPC support for cygwin.  Search the cygwin-developer
archives
> for 'cygwin daemon'.

Chuck, you can use pthread_atfork() to have a function called in your
app when fork () is called. You could call that during shmattach, and
then when you callback is triggered increment nattch..

Rob


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