cygipc (and PostgreSQL) XP problem resolved!
Charles Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Wed May 7 00:14:00 GMT 2003
Jason Tishler wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> Thanks to help from Frank Seesink, I was able to finally figure out why
> cygipc and in turn PostgreSQL failed to work properly under XP in
> certain situations. See the attached for some of the details.
>
> In summary, invoking the XP Fast User Switching feature causes XP to
> start using multiple kernel object namespaces instead of a single global
> one. This in turn causes cygipc clients to fail to find a global
> semaphore (i.e., \BaseNamedObjects\MultiSemSem_) created by ipc-daemon
> and abort.
>
> Are you willing to accept a cygipc patch to correct this problem?
Always.
See discussion following cgf's Subject: change to "Include cygipc in the
distribution" for more info.
--Chuck
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