Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 00:00:49 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygipc (and PostgreSQL) XP problem resolved! Message-ID: <20030511040049.GA21132@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20030510171629 DOT GB11448 AT redhat DOT com> <3EBD3896 DOT 8000202 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <1052612200 DOT 897 DOT 31 DOT camel AT localhost> <20030511012322 DOT GA18836 AT redhat DOT com> <1052617309 DOT 897 DOT 43 DOT camel AT localhost> <20030511014650 DOT GB18993 AT redhat DOT com> <1052618088 DOT 907 DOT 49 DOT camel AT localhost> <20030511023703 DOT GE18993 AT redhat DOT com> <1052623871 DOT 907 DOT 52 DOT camel AT localhost> <20030511035041 DOT GA20950 AT redhat DOT 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/