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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:45:22 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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To: Siegfried Heintze <siegfried AT heintze DOT com>
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Subject: Re: System V IPC Message Queues and Shared Memory?
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Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> I'm curious: does cygwin support the msgget, msgsnd, msgrcv & msgctl
> functions from System V IPC?
> 
> The sample code I downloaded from the www.wrox.com (for the book Beginning
> Linux Programming 3rd Edition chapter 14) compiles with no errors bug causes
> a "5032 Bad System call".
> 
> Should these functions work?
> 
> And what about shared memory using shmget, shmat, shmdt, shmctl?
> The sample code compiles with these functions too but gives a " 2764 Bad
> system call " and " 4480 Bad system call" when I run them.
> Should these work?

See the Cygwin User's Guide:

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygserver.html>

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