On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 05:11:17PM -0400, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> 2002-04-15 Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * sysdeps/mach/hurd/Makefile (sysdep_routines) [$(subdir) =
> sysvipc]: Add sysvshm.
I notice conversation has stalled on this. Is it at a point where you
re
Neal,
> My problem is not so much with setting the owner and changing the file
> mode, but rather, using the author field for the creator uid and the
> flags for the pid of the last operation, etc. Please understand that
> I was sloppy as it was not my intention to decide what to overload
> with
> I have a couple of questions on your implementation, however, that I
> just
> don't understand. You commented out the entire 'IPC_SET' case from the
> shmctl function. I'm not clear on why you did this. How else can we
> enforce permissions on shared memory segments? I'm not sure why you
> o
Neal,
Thanks for doing the cleanup. I'll try to study your changes and
improve
next time. I'll concede that there was probably a logic error or two
in there and I didn't throw any mutexes in for thread safety. My fault.
The file 'list.h' comes from the Linux source and I like to use it
becuase
I have rewritten your patch. There were a variety of problems with
it.:
o Coding and logic errors.
o Not robust.
o Not thread safe.
o You should use the libc functions, not hurd rpcs.
o You need to use the GNU coding standards.
o You need to follow the glibc conventions
o Where did
Marcus, Roland,
> Neal did something on this before.
Here's what I've done. I started with Neal's code and for the most part
the ipcs and ipcrm utilities did not need any changes. I took the
shmat/shmget/shmctl routines and re-worked them, replacing the need for
a new translator with existing _
