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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: qrecent copy.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.191511.18525@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 19:15:11 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.165004.17755@scott.skidmore.edu> <1992Sep7.195422.19813@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep7.195422.19813@muddcs.claremont.edu>, jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
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- | > Will linux support the Coconet online BBS system.(my
- | >application for it)
- |
- | I dunno, haven't heard about it. If it's fairly portable to begin
- | with, a port to Linux should be painless. If it has all sorts of ugly
- | SCO hacks, you could have problems.
-
- Whoa, there are lots of nice POSIX things still missing from Linux,
- which is what has kept me from porting a number of applications. The
- whole IPC area is a "vast wasteland," and that's where BBS systems
- usually need resources. SCO provides working mmap(), shared memory,
- semiphores (BSD and SysV), and message queues.
-
- The fact that Linux is a great system does not cover the painful lack
- of these things, as well as some kinds of file locking (at least now we
- have file locking, lockf() can be written as a library over the ioctl
- forms). These are not "ugly SCO hacks" they are common, widely available
- features currently missing from Linux. You sound like a politician,
- slinging mud at the competition instead of praising your own strong
- points.
-
- Linux stands very well on its strong points.
-
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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