Re: [boost] [shmem] Re: darwin missing clock_gettime (causing problems in shmem)

From: Anthony Williams (anthony_w.geo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-14 05:47:57

Ion Gaztañaga <igaztanaga_at_[hidden]> writes:

> That's bad news, since all Shmem/Interprocess POSIX synchronization is 
> based on that. In windows I try to emulate it with spins and waits but 
> that's really a pain because you don't get mutex benefits like priority 
> inversion.

I don't know the details of what you're trying to do, but on Windows, native
synchronization objects can be shared between processes if you name them ---
if any process then requests the object with the same name, they get the same
mutex/semaphore/event.

HTH,

Anthony
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