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To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Subject: Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC 
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:13:09 +1030."
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:58:50 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <XFMail.990218151309.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> "Daniel O'Connor" writes:
: Yeah, well, given the man page says you shouldn't assume the tv
: doesn't change, maybe they thought they could make things better :)
: I suppose it was naivity showing through..

I survived the Linux experience with this.  There were a huge number
of bugs were the system would use 100% of the systems.  That isn't the
improvement.  It was a bad idea then, and it is a bad idea now as
well.

Warner


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