Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm 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 Message-ID: <005b01c22f9f$4f517840$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Nicholas Wourms" , "Max Bowsher" , References: <20020720001816.54804.qmail@web21007.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: is there a sendmail ? Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:41:16 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 === ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicholas Wourms" To: "Robert Collins" ; "Max Bowsher" ; > Which gets me thinking, perhaps this is YA function which could be handled > by Cygserver? It makes sense seeing as how this could use semaphores. By > the dates, it looks like he's updated it recently. Max, you might want to > correspond with Conrad Scott, who has been spearheading the Cygserver > project lately. He is very will versed in interprocess communications and > could probably refer you to some excellent material to get you up to > speed. The cygserver could be (and should in the long run) be used to provide persistence for the fifo when all involved processes have exited. But that's all that's needed. It *could* be used for all fifo activity, but frankly, I don't see much need for the overhead. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/