Cygdaemon - planning

[Earnie Boyd]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:17:54AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
>>Do we want this?  Wouldn't it be better to have a separate export library
>>for the functions only available with cygserver?
> 
> 
> In this scenario, we have always gone with "what does UNIX do?"  I think it
> is pretty likely that the main users of this code will be existing programs
> which expect not to have to look in other libraries to find Sys V shm and
> semaphores.  So, putting the exports in some other library will result in
> configury changes for existing programs which is something that cygwin
> tries to avoid.
> 

So, there needs to be a method to detect the presence of cygserver 
executing or not from the cygwin dll and set an error of ENOSYS if not?

Earnie.