> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:23:39AM -0500, Bill Stoddard wrote: > > The issue is not whether we need a "file" backing the scoreboard. On > Unix, you make the > > scoreboard use a file when the OS does not support shared memory. > > I think Aaron pointed out in a recent exchange with a FreeBSD user > that we don't support any OS without shared memory (FreeBSD disables > shmem in a jail). IIRC, file-backed scoreboards are no longer > supported in 2.0 (i.e. no use of shmem at all). Some OSes require > a path to "setup" the scoreboard via shmem. FWIW, this seems > identical to your issue in Win32. > > (I could be wrong, but that is my interpretation.) -- justin
I think you are 100% spot on, which was my original point. Unix requires a filename to be setup for most shared memory implementations. Windows should work exactly the same way, right down to supporting the ScoreBoardFile directive. Ryan
