Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:36:27 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: seanb012@sunbeach.net (Sean Batson) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPCS Utility Message-ID: <199612300106.LAA04664@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961229195949.293A-100000@bsdi.net> from Sean Batson at "Dec 29, 96 08:05:35 pm"
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Sean Batson stands accused of saying: > On executing the IPCS command the results didn't display any > active semospheres. Would this be internal to the OS or the > IPCS utility. If you don't have semaphore support compiled in, there won't be any. FreeBSD doesn't use them internally; it just offers them as a service to applications. Here's a quiet system : cain:~>ipcs Message Queues: T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP Shared Memory: T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP m 458752 0 --rwarwarwa amurphy users m 196609 0 --rwarwarwa amurphy users m 262148 0 --rwarwarwa msmith users Semaphores: T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP > What's the latest with FreeBSD equivalent of AIX's SMIT interface? > Give me some specs and I think I can come up with an equivalent. > (roughly 6 to 9 months). Development on this is currently underway; if you're Tcl literate (or are willing to learn & want to take part regardless) then we'd love to have you aboard. I should pester our mailmaster for a list for discussions of this; it's getting difficult remembering everyone that's interested 8) > Sean Batson. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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