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Re: Inter-Process Mutexes
- From: Samuel Thibault <samuel dot thibault at ens-lyon dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 11:58:05 +0200
- Subject: Re: Inter-Process Mutexes
Hi,
Drake Baker, le Mon 04 Sep 2006 01:49:25 -0500, a ïcrit :
> I have seen conflicting information on the web concerning inter-process
> mutexes in CYGWIN. I have seen outright statements that it is not
> supported, and I have seen statements that ALL mutexes are inter-process by
> default. Obviously, only one statement is currently correct.
Both are true :)
Windows provides inter-process mutexes (you just need to give a name to
CreateMutex ; every process that give the same name will get the same
mutex). But cygwin doesn't provide a pthread interface for it. PTW.
Samuel
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