Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/03/05/09:03:27
I have tried the suggested solution, but compilation failed as we have included
the following calls to Cygipc:
semctl, semget, semop
shmtcl, shmget, shmat, shmdt
msgctl, msgget, msgsnd, msgrcv
and also included header files like ipc.h,sem.h,shm.h in our application
If i have to sucessfully compile and run our application, what are the corresponding calls
and header files that i have to include in our application to run with Cygserver.
Please suggest.
----- Original Message ----
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Sent: Friday, 2 March, 2007 11:24:39 PM
Subject: Re: Difference Between CYGIPC And CYGServer
neo napster wrote:
> I have a few queries regarding cygserver and cygipc.
> what will be the impact to move from cygipc to cygserver?
> I have some systems programs which make calls to the CYGIPC,
> since these programs are coded long back.
>
> Can you please give us an idea of the things that need to be done
> to move from cygipc to cygserver. Our programs are coded in C.
Both provide (some) of the standard IPC calls. Both cygipc and
cygserver implement the BSD interfaces for shared memory, semaphores,
and message queues. (In cygwin-1.7.0+, cygserver will also implement
POSIX-compliant shared memory objects and message queues).
cygipc is practically unmaintained -- and the code quality is, er, less
than ideal. cygserver is actively maintained and coded to a much higher
standard.
Since both, today, implement the same BSD-derived interface[see (4),
below], to move from one to the other, you should simply
(1) stop using -I/usr/include/cygipc in your build
(1) stop using -lcygipc2 in your build
(3) don't run ipc-daemon2.exe; instead, run /usr/bin/cygserver-config
and follow the instructions.
(4) remove calls to
cygipc_set_err_handler
cygipc_get_err_handler
cygipc_set_debug
cygipc_get_debug
cygipc_tracing_enabled
cygserver uses Win32 event logging for error and debug handling, so
these hacks provided by cygipc are unnecessary.
--
Chuck
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