From: Peter MacDonald (pmacdona@sanjuan)
Date: 02/23/93


From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: Re: IPC SYSV, semaphores, shared mem, etc
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 00:02:05 GMT

In article <1993Feb22.142036.6233@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <1993Feb21.035911.236@gnusys.GUN.de>, kg@gnusys.GUN.de (Klaus Guhr) writes:
>
>| : If linux does not support IPC SYSv shared memory, does it have an
>| : alternative?
>|
>| There exist an IPC-BETA-Version for 0.99.5. You can find it on tsx-11.mit.edu in pub/linux/patches.
>
> Be warned that SLS has the header files for this stuff, but seems to
>lack the system calls (nice choice). I looked in all the lib*.a
>libraries for the stuff, and didn't find it. End of porting effort.

IPC in SLS is a patch, so you must apply this if you recompile the
kernel (ditto selection). The full patch is included.

Peter