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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!agate!glass From: glass@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Adam Glass) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: SysV IPC in NetBSD Date: 8 Dec 93 13:25:25 Organization: Organization is evil. Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <GLASS.93Dec8132525@sun-lamp.postgres.Berkeley.EDU> References: <2e4rf4$365@oak.pd.tgi.plexus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu In-reply-to: scottr@news.plexus.com's message of 8 Dec 1993 09:22:12 -0600 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? Yes. I don't have a timeline for it, but definitely before the next release. later, Adam Glass NetBSD project -- Adam Glass |E-mail home: glass@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu |Physical : Seattle "reality is for dead birds"