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From: Joe Buehler <jbuehler AT hekimian DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygipc semaphores not persistent?
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:53:40 -0400
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Mark Paulus wrote:

> Are you running the ipcdaemon process?  At one time
> the cygipc libraries required the ipcdaemon process
> to manage the global objects.  I thought I read something
> that the ipc-daemon is going away, and being incorporated
> into the cygwin architecture, but I did not gather that it had
> happened yet.  That may be a misunderstanding on my
> part however.

I spent some time in the guts of the cygipc code, and think I tracked
it down -- nothing was keeping the semaphore handles open but client
processes, so when they all exited, the semaphore went away.

I just posted a patch to fix this -- the ipc-daemon process now
keeps semaphores open as long as they are supposed to exist.
-- 
Joe Buehler



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