Re: Migrating to Oracle on Windows

On Mon, 21 May 2007 12:55:30 -0700, hasta_l3 wrote:

> Unfortunatly, I dont know unix...
>
> Windows synchronization objects include events, semaphores and mutexes,
> which can be used across processes.

Not the way POSIX defines them. POSIX IPC primitives very well defined standard which specifies arguments, behaviors and return values. Microsoft chose not to implement that. Actually, Microsoft has a POSIX layer and the corresponding section is here:

http://tinyurl.com/36yh34

Also, this is an additional layer, not native callse, and this software has a very bad rap. Portability is simply not Microsoft's MO.

-- 
http://www.mladen-gogala.com