From: bje AT air DOT net DOT au (Ben Elliston) Subject: System V IPC (shared memory) 2 May 1997 13:13:09 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi, I am trying to compile a UNIX utility that uses System V IPC. To be more precise, it uses the shm_* shared memory system calls. On most UNIX systems, these functions are prototyped in /usr/include/sys/ipc.h and the code #includes . There is no such header file in the Cygwin headers, so I'm wondering what is the state of these UNIX primitives being emulated on Win32? According to some API documentation I've read, it should be possible to almost directly map shared memory onto shared memory-mapped files in Win32. Can someone fill me in on what's happening in this area? I'm happy to look into it more closely myself, but there's no point if it's being worked on already. Thanks, Ben - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".