Re: posix shared memory

[James Morrison]

--- Jon Arney <jarney1@cox.net> wrote:
> James,
> 
> Thanks for the links.  One of the difficult things about coming up to
> speed on the Hurd is that there are so many different websites with
> lots of (sometimes conflicting) information.

 Yes, luckily this has gotten a bit better with most stuff on hurd.gnu.org

> One question I had was about your list of planned changes.  On there,
> you list "Posix shared memory".  Is anybody working on this?  If not,
> I'd like to make an attempt at it (I have already started working on
> some of it).  If there's already a project partially completed, that
> would be better than starting from scratch.  I can't seem to get
> my Gimp to work because it lacks shmget/shmat/etc.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Jon.

 The Posix shared memory, as you might have noticed, is under Neal's list.  A
while ago, there was a call for Hurd projects, this was something Neal said
he was working on.

 I found this previous thread on Shared memory implementations:
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-hurd/2000-November/004282.html
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-hurd/2000-December/004293.html


 
> 
> James Morrison wrote:
> > 
> >  Personal Plug:  I have collected on my website all the translators I know
> of.
> > I'll the new procfs and httpfs this weekend.  see hurd.dyndns.org
> > 
> >  Once reason I was able to keep my hurd box up for 7 weeks was that I used
> > neal's proc filesystem which continued to work even after I couldn't use ps
> -a.
> > I don't know why I couldn't use ps -a, but I couldn't.
> > 
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   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   2A co-op
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