X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <17216763.146331204311685621.JavaMail.root@hrndva-web11-z02> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:01:25 -0500 From: To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: missing shm_open and shm_unlink Cc: Corinna Vinschen MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sensitivity: Normal X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Thank you for your quick response. Rex Hays ---- Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 29 13:36, rnbhays@rochester.rr.com wrote: > > In reply to Don Marquardt's initial question, Corinna indicated the shm_open and shm_unlink would be supported in the next release. I am using the followign version using the uname -a command > > > > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2007-12-14 19:21 i686 Cygwin > > > > The two commands do not seem to be supported yet. The version mentioned in Corinna's response is 1.5.24. I am what looks to be the next version. I looked in sys/mman.h and do not see these two function prototypes. Is there a plan to add this functionality? > > They will be supported in the next *major* release, which will be 1.7.0. > The 1.5.x updates since 1.5.24 are basically only bugfixes. They don't > get new functionalty over earlier releases. 1.7.0 will take some more > time. No schedule yet. Feel free to test developer versions from > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ as long as you don't use them in production > environments. > > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/