From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 8 00:16:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA02360 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:16:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA02355 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:16:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA20977 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 09:16:16 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA06875; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 09:14:50 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970708091450.QL25215@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 09:14:50 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no SYSVSHM in GENERIC now.. References: <199707080457.OAA31397@godzilla.zeta.org.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199707080457.OAA31397@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Jul 8, 1997 14:57:20 +1000 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > >I can't remember - why did we take it out? > > We never had them, except in in a forgotten branch :-). ...where jkh added them. jkh seems to operate a lot on forgotten branches, and afterwards wonders why the bits didn't wander into the HEAD theirselves. :) But Jordan, don't add SYSVMSG, almost nobody uses them. They are really non-generic in a world that can use sockets to pass messages. (I know that there are differences, but nevertheless, they are not in wide use.) Even SYSVSEM is arguable, i think the only `canned' application that uses them is PEX. (Who uses PEX, anyway? :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)