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Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 11:15:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: John Ypsilantis <johny AT heuristics DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Shmget() fails when run within a program that is started by  inetd. Has anyone else encountered this?
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On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, John Ypsilantis wrote:

> I have come across what may be a problem with the interaction of the
> shared memory subsystem with networking code that is run up by inetd.
> The following program runs to completion when started interactively and
> under (x)inetd control for FC3. While it also runs to completion when
> started interactively under Cygwin, it crashes silently within the
> shmget() call when it is run up under inetd.
>
> The program should be run on a system with shared segment with key=1
> absent.

How is inetd installed as service?  Does that service have CYGWIN=server
in its environment?
	Igor
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