Ian Collins writes:
>
> I am trying to port an application that makes use of Unix shared memory
> (shmget/shmat...) and semaphores (semget/semctl...).
>
> I presume that I will have to rewrite the above using intrinsics for
> MPE/ix 5.5. Has anyone performed such a port, or does anyone have any
> pointers in the right direction.

Both the shmxxx() and semxxx() families exist natively on 5.5 within -lsvipc,
so no porting or rewriting should be needed, at least for the shared memory
stuff.

AFAIK, there aren't any standard non-prived intrinsics available to do the
same functionality.

I've personally used the shmxxx() functions and they seem to work OK, except
for a minor filename syntax bug in the related ftok() function that I describe
in:

        http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/porting.html
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