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- Submitted-by: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
-
- [ Is it my imagination, or is this thread getting stale?
- Oh well. I think John will be back soon. He can decide. --Fletcher ]
-
- According to fouts@bozeman.bozeman.ingr (Martin Fouts):
- >Of course, if I have to acquire a file handle for my IPC, I can't
- >imlement it as efficiently as if I just do it locally in shared memory
- >and don't bother the system about it's existance.
-
- Well, if the system doesn't know about it, then it's not a system IPC
- facility. If, however, the system does know about it, then it has to
- have a handle, which might as well be a small integer -- i.e. a file
- descriptor.
- --
- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
- "I've been cranky ever since my comp.unix.wizards was removed
- by that evil Chip Salzenberg." -- John F. Haugh II
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- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 208
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