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Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 17:25:00 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Include cygipc in the distribution (was Re: cygipc (and PostgreSQL) XP problem resolved!)
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On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 01:47:26PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Thanks to help from Frank Seesink, I was able to finally figure out why
>cygipc and in turn PostgreSQL failed to work properly under XP in
>certain situations.  See the attached for some of the details.
>
>In summary, invoking the XP Fast User Switching feature causes XP to
>start using multiple kernel object namespaces instead of a single global
>one.  This in turn causes cygipc clients to fail to find a global
>semaphore (i.e., \BaseNamedObjects\MultiSemSem_) created by ipc-daemon
>and abort.
>
>Are you willing to accept a cygipc patch to correct this problem?

Since we no longer seem to have a cygwin-daemon maintainer, I'm wondering
if it is time to start including cygipc in the main distribution.  It
seems like the lack of this functionality is a real handicap to people.

FWIW, I'm willing to take over maintainership if that is a barrier.

cgf

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