Can MKS Toolkit and Cygwin safely co-exist on Windows servers?

[Warren Young]

On Nov 16, 2015, at 5:54 PM, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  If I were to install Cygwin, would it conflict with MKS Toolkit?

It shouldn’t.

However, you cannot expect any cross-process mechanisms to work correctly across that boundary like pipes, shared memory, and other forms of IPC that don’t map 1:1 to native Windows mechanisms.

(So, TCP/IP will be compatible across the boundary, since both MKS and Cygwin implement BSD sockets in terms of Winsock.)

>  Secondly, I'm really confused about 32bit versus 64bit servers;
> should I just use 32bit Cygwin to be sure?

Almost certainly not: http://stackoverflow.com/a/18333049


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