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 Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 00:00:49 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygipc (and PostgreSQL) XP problem resolved! Message-ID: <20030511040049.GA21132@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030510171629.GB11448@redhat.com> <3EBD3896.8000202@ece.gatech.edu> <1052612200.897.31.camel@localhost> <20030511012322.GA18836@redhat.com> <1052617309.897.43.camel@localhost> <20030511014650.GB18993@redhat.com> <1052618088.907.49.camel@localhost> <20030511023703.GE18993@redhat.com> <1052623871.907.52.camel@localhost> <20030511035041.GA20950@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030511035041.GA20950@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 11:50:41PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >As you noted, since global atoms can't do that consistently, they are >worthless. What global atoms do seem to do is provide unique values >across the system. Unfortunately, one session doesn't seem to be able >to access another session's atoms even if the ids are unique. Actually, on further experimentation, my uniqueness assumption isn't true. I just managed to delete a system atom in my main login session by using a global atom id derived from an ssh login. So, the atoms are only unique within sessions. Bummer. cgf -- 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/