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From: T.D.G.Sandford@bradford.ac.uk (TDG SANDFORD)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD & shared mem... when?
Date: 30 Sep 1994 17:42:44 GMT
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@freefall.cdrom.com) wrote:
: In article <Cwuouz.CG0@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com> lando@butch.lmsc (James G. Landowski) writes:

:        I'm using version 1.1 of FreeBSD and found that shared memory
:     access using shmget,shmctl,... is included but not implemented,
:     is it part of 2.0 or is is still TBD. Thanks for the info.

: You need to recompile a kernel with the SYSV* options enabled.  Look
: at /sys/i386/conf/LINT for examples.  It definitely _is_ implemented
: in this and all subsequent versions of FreeBSD!

Unfortunately there are no man pages available for these functions in the
1.1.5.1 release of FreeBSD, which further confuses those of us looking
for them :-( (at least *I* couldn't find them).

However, as Jordan says, they do work.

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