Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 09:14:50 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no SYSVSHM in GENERIC now.. Message-ID: <19970708091450.QL25215@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199707080457.OAA31397@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Jul 8, 1997 14:57:20 %2B1000 References: <199707080457.OAA31397@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > >I can't remember - why did we take it out? > > We never had them, except in in a forgotten branch :-). ...where jkh added them. jkh seems to operate a lot on forgotten branches, and afterwards wonders why the bits didn't wander into the HEAD theirselves. :) But Jordan, don't add SYSVMSG, almost nobody uses them. They are really non-generic in a world that can use sockets to pass messages. (I know that there are differences, but nevertheless, they are not in wide use.) Even SYSVSEM is arguable, i think the only `canned' application that uses them is PEX. (Who uses PEX, anyway? :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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