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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: ftok() ?
Message-ID: <10178@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 30 Oct 90 21:45:03 GMT
References: <1990Oct30.123536.12798@robobar.co.uk>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Oct30.123536.12798@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
: I probably wouldn't be seen dead using the shm* sem* and msg* functions
: in perl (hurried disclaimer :-) but seeing as they *are* there, is it
: simply perversity that ftok() is left out? :-)
: 
: Just a question :-)

I don't know if it's perversity--more like nobody thought about it.  From
the man page, though, it looks as though it does little more than encode
the device and inode of the file along with the id character you pass.
I bet it's a one line perl subroutine.

Larry