From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Nov 10 19:43:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D8037B401 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 19:43:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD19F43E91 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 19:43:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id A333EAE313; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 19:43:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 19:43:57 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Kirk McKusick Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Keith Bostic Subject: Re: Shared-memory version of macros Message-ID: <20021111034357.GC39178@elvis.mu.org> References: <200211101732.gAAHWZ59035339@beastie.mckusick.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200211101732.gAAHWZ59035339@beastie.mckusick.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Kirk McKusick [021110 17:29] wrote: > I am proposing to add a new version of the macros that > are designed to work in shared memory. The man page and actual macros It seems a like a very useful addition, I've not seen anything else freely available to accomplish the same thing. Dr. McKusick, if you have an "in" with any of the standards bodies it would be really, _Really_, _REALLY_ nice to see some form of the BSD queue macros become part of the standard such that they will be named and behave consitantly across Unix/all platforms. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message