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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Release of 4.4lite - When? Date: 17 Feb 1994 05:53:11 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 51 Message-ID: <2jv0o7$mtb@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <2j9181$l4l@jadzia.CSOS.ORST.EDU> <1994Feb10.161414.23939@alias.com> <2jrdp3$lna@hopscotch.ksr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <2jrdp3$lna@hopscotch.ksr.com> jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) writes: >mark@alias.com (Mark Andrews) writes: >>what will be missing from 4.4-lite: >> In addition, System >> 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...: /* * Implementation of SVID messages * * Author: Daniel Boulet * * Copyright 1993 Daniel Boulet and RTMX Inc. * * This system call was implemented by Daniel Boulet under contract from RTMX. * * Redistribution and use in source forms, with and without modification, * are permitted provided that this entire comment appears intact. * * Redistribution in binary form may occur without any restrictions. * Obviously, it would be nice if you gave credit where credit is due * but requiring it would be too onerous. * * This software is provided ``AS IS'' without any warranties of any kind. */ ... /* * Implementation of SVID semaphores * * Author: Daniel Boulet * * This software is provided ``AS IS'' without any warranties of any kind. */ A lot of the shared memory stuff was also reworked at the University of Utah at one time, as well. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.