From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 11 10:46:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA27753 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:46:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27744 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:46:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id KAA93962; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:45:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:45:44 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199902111845.KAA93962@apollo.backplane.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Peter Wemm , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Christoph Kukulies , Terry Lambert , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC References: <199902110308.LAA60544@spinner.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :Peter Wemm writes: :> I implemented it on FreeBSD back in 1996 or so but gave up in the end. :> The biggest offender was the libc RPC code, but there were a constant :> supply of things that mysteriously failed. It was a real nightmare trying :> to track down and locate them. : :That's what glimpse is for. I'm willing to do the work if someone :provides the patches for select(). : :DES :-- :Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no I don't think too many people would appreciate anybody screwing around with select's operational semantics. Linux backed out their change to match MOTROTW, we definitely should not be going off playing see-saw. BSD's select() has *never* modified tv and it is never going to modify tv. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message