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From: net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: shared memory segment, shmat() ...
Message-ID: <1445@tub.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 90 15:34:29 GMT
References: <34559@ut-emx.UUCP> <3783@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann)
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <3783@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
> 
> IBM chose to use "shmat()" to map files; Sun chose to use a modified
> version of the proposed-but-never-implemented-by-Berkeley "mmap()" call.

While we're at it-- does there exist a version of UNIX that supports
the proposed-but-never-implemented-by-Berkeley "portal()" system call?
Is it in 4.3reno, or will it be implemented by 4.4BSD?  SunOS 5.0?

Regards,
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Oliver Laumann     net@TUB.BITNET     net@tub.cs.tu-berlin.de     net@tub.UUCP