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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Good news, bad news
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.161059.22001@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 16:10:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.205311.7687@serval.net.wsu.edu>, hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu) writes:
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- | Try gcc -traditional when 2.2.2d is release to public or contact me. You can
- | also try to convert it to ANSI C if you really want to use gcc 2.2.2. That
- | was what I did before I fed up with it and made some changes in 2.2.2d.
-
- I do appreciate the thought (and thanks to those who suggested other
- header files by mail), but this program really is pretty portable, and
- compiles on the AT&T V.4 compiler, gcc 2.1 -ansi -pedantic, and SCO -W3
- without problems.
-
- | For tty, Linux is POSIX. For IPC, you can only use Unix domain socket for now.
- | If you don't use those SYSV IPC, it should be very easy to port it to Linux. Do
- | you think that code is much more complicated than X11R5?
-
- Thanks, this clarifies some of the problems, I will shelve this port
- until linux has a bit more IPC (and might even look at generating a few
- patches for some of the stuff I need). As for your question, I want to
- use shared memory, pipes, SysV semiphores and message queues. I think
- it's fair to say that the code is reasonably demanding in the IPC area,
- perhaps more than X11R5. That doesn't relate 1:1 with complexity, of
- course.
-
- By adding enough ifdefs I think I can use the file and termio stuff
- from various parts already written, although the big blocks of BSD vs
- SysV vs streams will have to be broken up.
-
- Everyone has been most helpful.
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
- understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
- continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
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