Re: IpcSemaphoreCreate - detailed account

Greg,

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:12:28AM -0500, Gregory D Dennis wrote:
> I am running Windows XP Pro.
>
> With your expert help, I've been able to narrow down the problem. Here's
> what I did:
>
> $ ipc-daemon --install-as-service
> $ net start ipc-daemon
>
> The second command produced an error:
>
> The service is not responding to the control function.
> More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2186.
>
> Trying to start it from the services window produced:
>
> Could not start the Cygwin IPC Daemon service on Local Computer.
> Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control
> request in a timely fashion.

Please report the above to the Cygwin list.

> I took this to be successful. I then switched to the 'postgres' user and
> tried it as well. But this time I received an error:
>
> $ ipctest s
> Test v0.03
> Unable to create semaphore
> semget : Function not implemented

You did not answer the following from my previous post:

Jason Tishler wrote:
> What is the output of the following command:
>
> $ ls -ld /tmp /tmp/cygipc_? /tmp/MultiFile*
> drwxrwxrwx+ 101 Administ None 188416 Feb 10 08:56 /tmp
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 3916520 Jan 17 11:19 /tmp/MultiFileMsg
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 22032 Jan 17 11:19 /tmp/MultiFileSem
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 202768 Jan 17 11:19 /tmp/MultiFileShm
> -rw------- 1 postgres None 1441792 Jan 13 16:30 /tmp/cygipc_0

I will try again. Does the following apply to your situation?

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2003-01/msg00143.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2003-01/msg00178.php

Jason

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