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Date:      Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:08:34 -0500
From:      Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@McKusick.COM>, arch@freebsd.org, Keith Bostic <bostic@sleepycat.com>
Subject:   Re: Shared-memory version of <sys/queue.h> macros
Message-ID:  <20021110230834.D52940@espresso.q9media.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021111034357.GC39178@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 07:43:57PM -0800
References:  <200211101732.gAAHWZ59035339@beastie.mckusick.com> <20021111034357.GC39178@elvis.mu.org>

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Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> writes:
> * Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com> [021110 17:29] wrote:
> > I am proposing to add a new version of the <sys/queue.h> 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.

You'll have to wait about 4 years to propose it for inclusion in the
next POSIX revision.

Best regards,
Mike Barcroft

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