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Subject: UNIX Facilities for Interpreters
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Date: Wed, 10-Jun-87 22:44:29 EDT
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This (a virtual read operation) can be simulated on SystemV with the
shared memory operations (shmctl(2), shmget(2) and shmop(2)).  This is
not to say that vread is a bad idea, but that it could be a library routine
rather than a system call, at least on SystemV.

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