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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: configure misery
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Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 20:58:36 +0100
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configure has two fundemental problems:

    1) it only really knows about systems it's seen

    2) it goes hunting for all sorts of crap in totally bizarre ways
        and when that breaks you are in a world of pain

people who write code that use configure then decide to use
every possible facility provided that it may or may not find,
rather than a minimal subset that should work on most
systems.

i guess all that mmap() and shared memory junk is my fave.
i've never used it, never will.

isn't there come great horror, err war, story about those boys
from BSD who re-wrote cat to use mmap() which worked, as
it were, until cat & mmap() hit a pipe?

right, mmap me a socket ...