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Re: CYGWIN support for threads, shared-memory, and other system calls
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: David <shawinbox at yahoo dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:37:42 -0400
- Subject: Re: CYGWIN support for threads, shared-memory, and other system calls
- References: <loom.20050722T003615-563@post.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 06:41 PM 7/21/2005, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am new to CYGWIN API development and wanted to know if CYGWIN supports the
>following POSIX items before actually diving in.
>1. Threading (such as pthread_mutex_t, pthread_create, etc.)
>2. Shared Memory (shm_open, mmap, etc.)
>3. Semaphores (sem_init)
>4. Linux system calls (realpath)
Cygwin has some support for all these general categories (and specific
functions mentioned). You should grab the source if you want more details
though. See <http://cygwin.com/cvs.html>.
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