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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 07:44:19 -0700
To: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
From: Brian Genisio <genisiob AT pilot DOT msu DOT edu>
Subject: Re: mmap not share
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>
> > Dirk,
> > This mmap thing is annoying... not only because mmap does not sync
>correctly,
> > but because the cygipc shared memory interface uses mmap to do it's
> > dirtywork... so mmaped files AND shm do not work correctly!!!!
> >
> > This racked my brain for a long while, until I created a workaround...
>If I
> > wanted to re-read the mmapped file, I had to unmap, and re-map... I
>created a
> > function I called mmap_sync (instead of calling msync, which does not
>work
> > either) and I put the unmap and map again in it... It created a lot of
>needless
> > overhead, but it was all I could think of to work around it...
> >
> > I hope I was of some help, and please tell me if you figure it out.
> > Brian
> >
>
>Brian, have you considered fixing this in cygwin1.dll, not in cygipc?
>That way your workaround would allow everyone access. (I suspect your
>workaround isn't the appropriate fix, but nevertheless)..
>
>Rob


My fix is a hack in the application.  I conditionally compile the shm gets 
and attaches, and add in the mmap calls, and then add the fake sync (where 
I unmap and re-map).  So, there is no workaround in CygIPC or cygwin1.dll.

I have spent a little bit of time looking through the cygwin source, but 
realized this would take a lot of debugging... I solved my problem even 
better by putting the reader application as a separate thread, spawned by 
the writing thread... all is happy!!!!

BTW, I would have used some other IPC method, other than shared memory or 
mmapped files, but the data the apps share is quite large, so serial 
communications, such as pipes or sockets would not work for me :)

Brian



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