Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!codas!flnexus!sdgsun!lab
From: lab@sdgsunsdgsun.com (Larry Baird)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Test SCO Xenix IPC reliability
Message-ID: <105@sdgsunsdgsun.com>
Date: 26 Aug 88 21:09:59 GMT
References: <166@ispi.UUCP>
Organization: Software Design Group, Inc., Maitland, FL
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in article <166@ispi.UUCP>, jbayer@ispi.UUCP (id for use with uunet/usenet) says:
> 
> I think Richard is right.  I added two sleep(1) to the program, one in
> the child() and one in the parent().  With these additions the program
> starts up and prints TICK/TOCK even when creating the shared memory
> segment for the first time.  I enclosed the new program below:

An better fix is to move the setting of loc[0] 
	(*loc = 1 and *loc = 0 )
to after there respective kills.  
The first kill from parent to child will be ignored, but the 
kill from child to parent will sink up the whole process.


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