From: | Robert Schrem <robert(dot)schrem(at)WiredMinds(dot)de> |
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To: | Jason Tishler <jason(at)tishler(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: HEADS UP: Win32/OS2/BeOS native ports - the 'BEST OPEN SOURCE database backend' |
Date: | 2002-06-03 14:08:14 |
Message-ID: | 200206031608.14726.robert.schrem@wiredminds.de |
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Hi,
You may want to have a look at: http://www.garret.ru/~knizhnik/
You find there code for a 'Fast synchronized access to shared
memory for Windows and for i86 Unix-es".
kind regards,
Robert
> Bruce,
>
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 08:49:21PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > mlw wrote:
> > > Like I told Marc, I don't care. You spec out what you want and I'll
> > > write it for Windows.
> > >
> > > That being said, a SysV IPC interface for native Windows would be kind
> > > of cool to have.
> >
> > I am wondering why we don't just use the Cygwin shm/sem code in our
> > project, or maybe the Apache stuff; why bother reinventing the wheel.
>
> Are you referring to cygipc above? If so, they even one of the original
> cygipc authors would discourage this:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-09/msg00017.html
>
> Specifically, Ludovic Lange states the following:
> > I really think the solution would be to start again from scratch
> > another implementation, as was suggested. The way we did it was
> > quick and dirty, the goals weren't to have production systems
> > running on it but only to run prototypes. So the internal design
> > (if there is any) may not be adequate for the cygwin project.
>
> However, Rob Collins has contributed a MinGW daemon to Cygwin to support
> switching users, System V IPC, etc. So, this code base may be a more
> suitable starting point to satisfy PostgreSQL's native Win32 System V
> IPC needs.
>
> Jason
>
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