home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!ornl!rsg1.er.usgs.gov!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!linus!alliant!merk!spdcc!rbraun
- From: rbraun@spdcc.com (Rich Braun)
- Subject: Re: additional features for linux
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.171919.16685@spdcc.com>
- Keywords: virtual serial consoles, tcpip bootrom, streams, isdn-driver
- Organization: Jupiter Technology Inc., Waltham MA
- References: <1992Dec3.192455.1325@xfswob.han.de> <1992Dec13.124051.15541@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:19:19 GMT
- Lines: 20
-
- Yesterday I set out to bring up a program called 'ecu' under Linux. This
- is a really nice, full-featured terminal program posted a couple years
- back to comp.unix.sources.
-
- The good news: After only minor tinkering, I got the Make to run almost
- all the way through. This really speaks well of the compatibility (at
- the source level) of Linux with other ***x systems.
-
- The bad news: like many other software packages, this program uses
- shared memory and IPC to manage its internal communications. Linux
- doesn't have a sys/ipc.h, so I gather from this that it doesn't
- yet support shared memory.
-
- This is probably an FAQ, but I'd like to hear some project plans from
- people working on extensions to the kernel, listing the things which are
- missing and which are considered priorities. If there are enough people
- to do the work (I might be able to do some of it) maybe it's possible
- to really develop a complete system.
-
- -rich
-