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Re: can't share fifo between 32-bit and 64-bit Cygwins
- From: Csaba Raduly <rcsaba at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin list <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 09:48:52 +0200
- Subject: Re: can't share fifo between 32-bit and 64-bit Cygwins
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On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Warren Young wrote:
> In principle, one could build a 32-bit cygwin1.dll that would depend on the
> existence of a 64-bit cygwin1.dll, doing nothing other than acting as a
> thunking layer. Every 32-bit Cygwin app that makes a call on that DLL would
> actually be talking to the 64-bit DLL, which would do all the work.
Of course, this would require the existence of two 32-bit
cygwin1.dlls, one for 32bit Cygwin on 32bit systems, and one for 32bit
Cygwin on 64bit systems (with 64bit Cygwin installed).
Implementation is left as an exercise :)
Csaba
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