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From: scottr@news.plexus.com (Scott Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: SysV IPC in NetBSD
Date: 8 Dec 1993 09:22:12 -0600
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I noticed that NetBSD-current (as of 28 Nov) has kernel support for the
SysV IPC calls; semaphores and message queues apparently work, shared
memory doesn't.  I would find it extremely useful to have this working,
because in the academic environment that I work in (my other job) some
instructors are insistent on teaching the students programming techniques
they are bound to encounter in the real world.  As you have likely guessed
by now, this includes SysV-style IPC.

In short:  is the shared memory code going to be fixed for NetBSD/i386?