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From: Sergei Politov (spolitov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-10 03:13:22


Ion Gaztañaga <igaztanaga <at> gmail.com> writes:

>
> Sadly, Interproces message queues are built above interprocess_mutex and
> interprocess_condition and they don't support process termination. It's
> not a bug, because they never tried to be termination-safe, but if you
> have an idea on how to do that without kernel support, I'm glad if you
> could help. In windows shared memory is emulated with mapped files, so
> it's possible that the mapped file will get corrupted if you kill processes.
>
Why we cannot use named mutexes, that is available in windows?

Also I will be glad to hear any suggestions about replacements for message_queue.

Best Regards,
  Sergei


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