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Subject: Re: RE: UNIX IPC - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 24-Sep-83 10:38:19 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 24 10:38:19 1983
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#R:ncsu:-233700:whuxlb:900024:000:505
whuxlb!nrf    Sep 24 10:38:00 1983

Faced with porting a message-based system of 4 processes from UN*X 4.x+
on a 11/70 to Unix 3.0 on an 11/34, which couldn't fit messages into the
kernal because of the address space limitations, I was able to emulate the
message facility in a compatible fashion using NAMED PIPES.  The only feature
I didn't emulate was the limitation on message queue length, but that was
not really a problem since UN*X buffers up to 10 blocks onto disk if necessary.

N.R.Fildes, BTL-Whippany (marx-machines!whuxlb!nrf)