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AW: IPC/SHM is now supported by default in xoncygwin HEAD CVS tree
- From: "Ralf Habacker" <ralf dot habacker at freenet dot de>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:09:25 +0200
- Subject: AW: IPC/SHM is now supported by default in xoncygwin HEAD CVS tree
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi Harold,
> I just checked in changes to the MIT-SHM
> (xc/programs/Xserver/Xext/shm.c) and XFree86Bigfont
> (xc/programs/Xserver/Xext/xf86bigfont.c) extensions that disable SHM
> support when the Cygwin IPC daemon is not running. This allows IPC/SHM
> support to be enabled by default in Cygwin/XFree86.
>
> I tried to define the functionality of an OS-specific SHM support check
> as best I could, which resulted in adding a new function called
> OsVendorShmCheck (). This new OsVendorShmCheck function is called from
> shm.c and xf86bigfont.c when DDXOSSHMCHECK is defined. This system was
> designed to work like DDXOSVERRORF and OsVendorVErrorF (), for example.
this is obviously the right way, I have seen the related patches for ...BSD,
but doesn't know who to deal with. Thanks for this efforts.
> There will be a new Server Test Series release sometime tomorrow that
> includes this new functionality.
>
I assume that the current xlib releases are linked without shm support ?
Then the new features of the Xwin Test server will only be usable if at
least the X11 and Xext libs are compiled with shm support.
Ralf