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- From: michael.smith@f842.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (michael smith)
- Message-ID: <3_800_842_fidonet2b3b73f1@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: MiNT, which way forward...
- Organization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au
- Date: 25 Dec 92 21:46:00 GMT
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- Original to: nino@vmars.tuwien.ac.at
- In a message of <16 Dec 1992 12:16:3>, nino@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (3:713/602)
- writes:
-
- n> Speaking of MiNT, has anyone tried to write a Unix-like IPC
- n> library, eg. for arbitrarily sized messages, shared memory
- n> functions etc.? Having considered this for a while, I couldn't
- n> come up with a way to 'wait for messages with IDs from 0 to XX'
- n> except with busy waiting... Will MiNT ever support this, or
- n> has anyone else thought about it?
-
- On first blush, I'd say that having the OS keep a list of processes waiting
- for messages, and have an upper and lower limit on the source ID wouild do
- the trick. Ie, kernel support. Thusly, when the message is sent, the
- recipient is woken with the data all there & ready.
-
- Is my foot bleeding yet?
-
- n> -MY
-
- \`miff` /|\
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