shm status

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-developers-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-developers-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of 
> Christopher Faylor
> Sent: Monday, 10 June 2002 12:28 PM

> >However, that doesn't stop you from compiling them, linking 
> them against 
> >cygserver, and using them to help test and develop cygserver...
> 
> In reality, there is no reason why we couldn't include cygipc 
> in the cygwin
> release.  I was just concerned that the inclusion of cygipc 
> would hinder the
> development of a true cygwin DLL solution that used some of 
> the principles
> embodied in Robert/Egor's cygserver.

Yes, and we all agreed with that! I don't recall GPL issues ever being
raised against the inclusion of the cygipc _package_.

Furthermore, with the federated setup.ini capability, there's no reason
that someone 'out there' can't make cygipc available as a package if
they want to. I still don't think that cygipc belongs in the main distro
however. Oops, getting offtopic, perhaps this should go to cygwin-apps?

Rob