Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!ziggy!screamer!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: ftok() ? Message-ID: <2730379A.327F@tct.uucp> Date: 1 Nov 90 14:56:25 GMT References: <1990Oct30.123536.12798@robobar.co.uk> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 18 According to ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo): >Is it simply perversity that ftok() is left out? :-) I did the SysV IPC code, so... A long time ago, when I had nothing better to do, I read the entire programmer's reference manual for SCO Xenix 2.2. When I came upon ftok(), I read it carefully, theorized that it simply combined device and inode, determined that I would never need it, and promptly forgot that it existed. Sorry about that. Incidentally, I consider the whole notion of IPC keys (as opposed to filenames) to be a horrible committee-spawned botch. To me, ftok() appears to be a bone for the IPC-as-file proponents. I'm not biting. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , "I've been cranky ever since my comp.unix.wizards was removed by that evil Chip Salzenberg." -- John F. Haugh II