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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Chuck Robey wrote:

> I think that's great, but it was the XFree86 folks who did that, not the
> FreeBSD porter.  If FreeBSD porters had to patch the software to eliminate
> bugs, there'd be nearly no ports.  Such things should be forwarded to the
> software authors.

It was written for a SysV system that includes SYSVSHM.  It was
ported to a BSD system that does not (normally) include SYSVSHM.
At what point in the process did it break?


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