cottrell@nbs-vms.arpa (COTTRELL, JAMES) (03/12/86)
/* ron@brl (as in Natalie) writes: > I would like to see the compatibility study redone if you remove NETWORKING > from 4.2 and remove all the non-portable stuff from System V. Shared Memory > is not portable, nor is it required by the SVID. Semaphores might be useful, > but not as implemented, they need to be fixed so they work. If you did a > comparison of the system calls/programs/etc... as a function of the sameness > biased by how frequently they were used, you'd probably find the 95% value > more correct. > > -Ron Brilliant! Take out all the stuff that's different and they are the same :-) I agree that the semaphores are unusable. What, no P's & V's? jim cottrell@nbs */ ------