System-wide mutexes and pthreads

Conrad Scott Conrad.Scott@dsl.pipex.com
Thu Jun 13 07:44:00 GMT 2002


"Robert Collins" <robert.collins@syncretize.net> wrote:
> > Conrad Scott wrote:
> > More pertinently we should think about making sure that at
> > least some things
> > work if the daemon is killed and re-started while there are
> > cygwin programs
> > running. But I don't think that's an immediate concern.
>
> This is orthogonal: whether cygserver uses cygwin1.dll or not, killing
> cygserver will affect all other cygwin process in the same fashion.

Agreed. I was thinking that it's more of an issue than whether cygserver
should be a cygwin process or not. But it's not an immediate issue.

// Conrad





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