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From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: V86 mode
Date: 15 Aug 1993 06:35:15 GMT
Organization: AWA Defence Industries Pty. Ltd.
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In-reply-to: j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de's message of 9 Aug 1993 15:41:06 +0200

>>>>> On 9 Aug 1993 15:41:06 +0200, j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch) said:
J> NNTP-Posting-Host: bonnie.tcd-dresden.de

J> In <BLYMN.93Aug8183114@siren.awadi.com.au> blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes:

>I am attempting to port the Linux dosemu (actually xdos), my main
>stumbling block at the moment is lack of kernel services such as shm,
>sem and msg and of course v86.

J> Yep, but shm is there, isn't it?

shm is in the kernel (BTW there is a bug in machdep.c, it does not
include shm.h) I found you have to define the option SYSVSHM and
SHMMAXPAGES to enable it.  There is no library for shm though so it is
not available to user processes at the moment.

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Brett Lymn