shared memory segment, shmat() ...

Oliver Laumann net at tub.UUCP
Mon Jul 30 01:34:29 AEST 1990


In article <3783 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
> 
> IBM chose to use "shmat()" to map files; Sun chose to use a modified
> version of the proposed-but-never-implemented-by-Berkeley "mmap()" call.

While we're at it-- does there exist a version of UNIX that supports
the proposed-but-never-implemented-by-Berkeley "portal()" system call?
Is it in 4.3reno, or will it be implemented by 4.4BSD?  SunOS 5.0?

Regards,
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