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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
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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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