Re: HEADS UP: Win32/OS2/BeOS native ports

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