Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 10:22:23 +0930 From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" <doconnor@ist.flinders.edu.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Divert sockets.. Message-ID: <199709080052.KAA00380@lofty.ist.flinders.edu.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Sep 1997 18:33:28 -0400." <1.5.4.32.19970907223328.008be880@mail.mindspring.com>
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> The File Notification scheme (useful for Terry's file browser) may have used > this messaging scheme as well (I honestly don't remember). You certainly I think it does... > could be notified of disk change events (floppy insert/removal, later > removable HD change) through messages. > > Now, here's the question: How difficult would it be to do something like this > ? > It would take some sort of shared memory or other scheme to get the data from > one program to another. Or would that be too general? How about just a scheme > to get messages to and from the kernel? Yeah, the Amiga had the 'advantage' of having no memory protection(at all), so you could just pass pointers around =) Maybe the kernel could manage this stuff for your program, or perhaps someone could write a library to hide all the shared memory stuff(ie use SysV IPC calls, but abstract them in a library). > I love my Amiga, still use it. In fact, I just got NetBSD up and running on i > day before yesterday. Bonus. Wohoo! Another amiga freak ;) Seeya Darius ~~~~~~
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