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
-- Anthony Williams Software Developer Just Software Solutions Ltd http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk