From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:33:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Jr6dnbM9c8THQQ2iRVn-sw@comcast.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031017143638.B10499@submarine>
Roman Shaposhnick wrote:
> I always wanted to see how many applications would break if I were to,
> lets say, disable shared memory from SysV API. It could be a nice
> experiment to do on a live contemporary distro -- just pick a set of
> obscure interfaces and see how many applications are really using
> any of it.
Just because something isn't much used doesn't prove that
it isn't essential to have for a few cases where it is used.
In the case of shared memory, more recent apps use threads
instead of separate processes sharing memory. Threads
weren't available when shared memory was added.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-20 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-17 15:20 mirtchov
2003-10-17 16:34 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-10-17 17:08 ` Joel Salomon
2003-10-17 18:55 ` Brantley Coile
2003-10-17 19:05 ` matt
2003-10-17 20:17 ` ron minnich
2003-10-17 20:20 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-10-17 20:26 ` Brantley Coile
2003-10-17 20:41 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-17 20:54 ` Brantley Coile
2003-10-20 10:33 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-10-20 16:03 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-10-21 6:07 ` Adrian Tritschler
2003-10-17 22:18 ` ron minnich
2003-10-20 1:38 ` okamoto
2003-10-17 21:36 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2003-10-20 10:33 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2003-10-21 0:10 ` [9fans] Re: your mail Roman Shaposhnick
2003-10-17 23:38 ` [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9 Geoff Collyer
2003-10-18 1:21 ` bs
2003-10-21 10:14 ` Martin C.Atkins
2003-10-18 8:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-18 8:48 ` Richard Miller
2003-10-18 11:09 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-10-18 13:09 ` Tristan Seligmann
2003-10-19 8:25 ` C H Forsyth
2003-10-20 3:28 ` mirtchov
2003-10-20 7:04 ` Tristan Seligmann
2003-10-20 17:17 ` mirtchov
2003-10-20 10:35 ` Patrick R. Wade
2003-10-21 1:14 ` david parsons
2003-10-19 16:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-20 10:35 ` bs
2003-10-18 19:19 ` Richard Miller
2003-10-19 15:10 ` I RATTAN
2003-10-19 15:54 ` Richard Miller
2003-10-20 14:03 ` ron minnich
2003-10-20 17:03 ` jmk
2003-10-20 21:40 ` splite
2003-10-17 16:43 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-10-17 17:01 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-10-17 20:17 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-10-20 10:33 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-10-17 15:36 steve-simon
2003-10-17 16:05 Richard C Bilson
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