Re: Does shared memory support work on cyg64?

[Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

On 21/03/2014 18:39, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Marco Atzeri wrote:
> > for my test, it works
> > of course you need to put care to avoid collision between
> > 32 bit and 64 bit if you have both installed.
> >
> > testing on 64bit  Xwin with cygserver running I see
> >
> > [ 13438.222] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
> ----
> Hmmm...
>
> Did you have to do anything special with the cygserver other
> than running it's setup script?  (and then starting it as a
> service?)...
>
> Both versions are 64 bit when running -- how else would
> 32-bit interfere with 64-bit?

as the script creates a service called "cygserver"
running both the 32bit and the 64 bit scripts
causes the second to overwrite/overlap the first.

On my system I manually renamed the 64 one
to avoid collision and to allow to start them separately

$ cygrunsrv -LV
Service             : cygserver           (Installation path: E:\cygwin)
Display name        : CYGWIN cygserver
Current State       : Stopped
Command             : /usr/sbin/cygserver
stdin path          : /dev/null
stdout path         : /var/log/cygserver.log
stderr path         : /var/log/cygserver.log
Process Type        : Own Process
Startup             : Manual
Account             : LocalSystem

Service             : cygserver64
Display name        : CYGWIN cygserver64
Current State       : Running
Controls Accepted   : Stop
Command             : /usr/sbin/cygserver
stdin path          : /dev/null
stdout path         : /var/log/cygserver64.log
stderr path         : /var/log/cygserver64.log
Process Type        : Own Process
Startup             : Manual
Account             : LocalSystem


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