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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 21:46:50 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygipc (and PostgreSQL) XP problem resolved!
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On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:41:49AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 11:23, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Or we can just use Global atoms, as I suggested in cygwin-developers.
>
>IIRC Global atoms are not global these days - they are global within a
>single login at a time. I can't comment further without looking into the
>ftok spec again, which I don't have time for right now...

If that is really true, that would defeat the purpose of a global atom.

I'm not sure what ftok has to do with whether global atoms are global
or not, however.

cgf

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