Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga IPC should be the Amiga Unix IPC!
Message-ID: <1824@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 88 23:54:20 GMT
References: <2504@unicus.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article <2504@unicus.UUCP>, craig@unicus.UUCP (Craig D. Hubley) writes:
> If Amiga Unix will be System V.3, and System V.3 already has an IPC mechanism,
> brain-dead as it may be, it should be used.  So that AmigaDOS tasks can talk
> to Amiga Unix tasks (remember AmigaDOS will run as a task under Amiga Unix).
> Remember, many of the `real machine' services/facilities/whatever you need
> most are likely to be on the Unix side, if you have both.

But the functions provided by UNIX IPC are a very close match to those
provided by the Amiga EXEC already. Apart from named pipes, which have
already been implemented, there really isn't any functional difference
between the two. A package that provides streams-type pushing and popping
of filters would be nice, though there's already a public domain package
that provides more functionality than streams does... I'm talking about the
Commodities Manager.

Now a package that provides a mapping between UNIX IPC and AmigaDOS IPC
would be desirable, should AmigaDOS-under-UNIX (or vice-versa) ever come
about.
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