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From: siebren@piring.cwi.nl (Siebren van der Zee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: message passing in minix
Message-ID: <8895@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 15 Mar 90 20:10:33 GMT
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Have you tried the Amoeba primitives (trans, getreq, putrep)?
Implementing message passing on top of RPC should be a two-minute
hack. Too bad minix doesn't simply support multithreading: once
you do a getreq() you'll hang util someone's kind enough to do
a trans() with your port. Altough... using timers & signals you
should be able to abort a getreq(), or not?

(I'm not a Minix user, as a member of the Amoeba team I'm just
curious)

	Siebren van der Zee, siebren@cwi.nl