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Date:      Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:05:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: no SYSVSHM in GENERIC now..
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.970715150416.8285A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970715142504.15399C-100000@Journey2.mat.net>

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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Chuck Robey wrote:

> I think that's great, but it was the XFree86 folks who did that, not the
> FreeBSD porter.  If FreeBSD porters had to patch the software to eliminate
> bugs, there'd be nearly no ports.  Such things should be forwarded to the
> software authors.

It was written for a SysV system that includes SYSVSHM.  It was
ported to a BSD system that does not (normally) include SYSVSHM.
At what point in the process did it break?


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