keogh@nixeid.UUCP (Paul Keogh) (11/12/90)
I wish to port a large UNIX application to Windows 3.0. The application consistsof three processes which communicate using the System V IPC mechanisms - messages, shared memory and semaphores. Are the "IPC" features of Windows (messages, dynamic data exchange) sufficently powerful and flexible to enable me to use them as architectural replacements for the UNIX IPC mechanisms ? or is it better to rip out the IPC calls and replace them with ordinary function calls ?. If anyone has experience with this problem or comments or suggestions, please mail me. On a more generic note, are there any books, papers, reference materials etc. which deal with this area of porting UNIX applications to Windows ? If there is sufficient interest/response, I will edit and collate an initial guide to porting UNIX applications to Windows and place it somewhere accessible.(here or cica) Thanx for your help Paul Keogh keogh@u.nix.ie