RE: On PATH_MAX

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 15:51 -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:35 -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote:
> 
> > How is that different from:
> > 
> > -- Thread A --
> > share_id=share_memory(pointer_to_buffer, buffer_size);
> > 
> > send(endpoint, share_id);
> > 
> > -- Thread B --
> > share_id=recv(endpoint);
> > 
> > if is_acceptable(share_size(share_id)) pointer=accept_memory(share_id);
> > else reject_memory(share_id);
> 
> Offhand, I don't think that it is only minor differences in the details
> of the mechanisms.

Oops. That should have read "I think that it is only minor differences
in the details of the mechanisms."

shap