Re: ipc-daemon2.exe fails

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Dec 29 22:50, Zachary Uram wrote:
> Hello I am running the latest Cygwin with cygipc-2.03-2.tar package
> and when I run
> /usr/bin/ipc-daemon2.exe it immediately exits, no error message is printed,
> i have a /tmp directory and when i run ipcs it says: Bad system call
> 
> When I do ps it also shows that no ipc-daemon2.exe is working.
> 
> I need this to run a server which uses shared memory (I didn't write
> the server just using binaries) and my friend has it running fine on
> his XP machine! I am running Windows 98 SE.
> 
> Is there some special arguments I must give ipc-daemon2 or has this
> been deprecated and if so which package should I use? I can't find any
> man page for ipc-daemon2 or cygipc

ipc-deamon2 has been deprecated.  Use cygserver instead.  It's part of the
Cygwin base package and installed into /usr/sbin.  Documentation is in
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cygserver.README.

Corinna

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