Standard IPC for Python?

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Jan 13, 2009, at 4:31 PM, drobinow 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