Standard IPC for Python?

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:26 PM, drobinow at gmail.com wrote:

> On Jan 13, 5:08 pm, Philip Semanchuk <phi... at semanchuk.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 13, 2009, at 4:31 PM, drobi... at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 13, 2:37 pm, Philip Semanchuk <phi... at semanchuk.com> wrote:
>>>> I was suggesting getting posix_ipc or sysv_ipc to compile against a
>>>> compatibility library (Cygwin?) under Windows. It sounds like  
>>>> you're
>>>> proposing something totally different, no?
>>
>>> It's not really correct to call Cygwin a compatibility library. It's
>>> more of a separate system.
>>
>> Thanks for the education; I'm obviously not very familiar with it.
>>
>>> In any case, the current version (1.5.25) does not support  
>>> sem_unlink
>>> or shm_unlink so posix_ipc does not build. Cygwin 1.7, currently  
>>> under
>>> test, will support these.  I haven't tried it yet. I expect it will
>>> work OOTB.
>>
>> Thanks for the report. Strange that it supports the functions to open
>> but not close semaphores. IN any case, I'd be very happy if posix_ipc
>> or sysv_ipc would work with few or no modifications under Cygwin.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Philip
>
> I just downloaded cygwin 1.7 and posix_ipc builds successfully. The
> demo appears to work.


Most excellent! Thank you for the good news.