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From: cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Release of 4.4lite - When?
Date: 16 Feb 94 23:34:08
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of 17 Feb 1994 05:53:11 GMT
In article <2jv0o7$mtb@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes:
=>>> V shared memory emulation will be missing from 4.4BSD-Lite.
=>>
=>>Gee, I guess I have to take back all the nasty things I said about USL,
=>>considering their public-spirited effort here to improve 4.4BSD. :-)
=>
=>Personally, I don't understand this anyway, since free sources ARE
=>available without using the UCB sources...:
=>
=> [ Dan Boulet's copyrights from his SysV semaphore and SysV message queue
=> implementations ]
=>
=>A lot of the shared memory stuff was also reworked at the University of
=>Utah at one time, as well.
Dan Boulet's code never was (and never will be) in 4.4BSD.
It is the latter code, the SysV shared memory implementation "reworked"
at Utah, that was in Net/2, was claimed by USL, and won't be in 4.4-Lite.
Boulet hasn't done a SysV shared memory implementation, because
he was able to use the one in Net/2 (as shipped in BSDi's BSD/386).
chris
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chris g. demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
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