Date: Fri, 21 Apr 95 16:12:12 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: rjs@clark.net (Ron Steele) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: HP ftok() equivalent Message-ID: <9504212212.AA05401@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9504211744.B4692-0100000@critter.clark.net> from "Ron Steele" at Apr 21, 95 05:07:44 pm
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> I am porting some software from HP-UX to FreeBSD. The HP application > uses a function called ftok() to generate a unique interger based > on a file path. This number is used to generate a key for message queues, > thus allowing processes that know this file name to communicate. > > I can't seem to find this function in FreeBSD, is there something > simular available? Try adding -lcompat. ftok() is a trivial combination of stat information from the file in question (see the HP or Sun man page about how to write your own). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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