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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:37:42 -0400
To: David <shawinbox AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: CYGWIN support for threads, shared-memory, and other   system calls
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At 06:41 PM 7/21/2005, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am new to CYGWIN API development and wanted to know if CYGWIN supports the 
>following POSIX items before actually diving in.
>1.  Threading (such as pthread_mutex_t, pthread_create, etc.)
>2.  Shared Memory (shm_open, mmap, etc.)
>3.  Semaphores (sem_init)
>4.  Linux system calls (realpath)

Cygwin has some support for all these general categories (and specific 
functions mentioned).  You should grab the source if you want more details
though.  See <http://cygwin.com/cvs.html>.




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