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- From: zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim)
- Subject: Re: Client/Server Coding
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.022649.14872@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1993Jan10.214348.10114@athena.mit.edu> <BsR7wB5w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:26:49 GMT
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- In article <BsR7wB5w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org> kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
- >
- >Someone has done System V IPC for Linux. This seems perhaps a bit silly to
- >me; I can write (have already designed in my head) a System V shared memory
- >emulator library that uses mmap() (the standard Linux shared memory
- ^^^^
- This is incomplete in Linux. You can only mmap /dev/mem (done so we can access
- the screen).
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- >mechanism) and most people think the others should be redesigned to use the
- >file system namespace instead of their own private namespaces. (Actually,
- >only semaphores are missing; message queues can be done with sockets.)
- >
- >++Brandon
- >
- >--
- >He's BAAAACK! Brandon S. Allbery NOTE NEW ADDRESS!!! kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org
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