From: Dominic Richens (dominic@popeye.genie.uottawa.ca)
Date: 02/26/93


From: dominic@popeye.genie.uottawa.ca (Dominic Richens)
Subject: Re: IPC SYSV, semaphores, shared mem, etc
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 21:35:07 GMT


In article <1993Feb22.142036.6233@crd.ge.com>, davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E 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.

The code is in the b4 disk (ipcbeta.tpz) it installs into
/usr/src/linux/ipc. The library, an init program (into rc.local) and some
test programs are in /usr/src/linux/ipc/test. Works great for me.

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