14 Feb
2002
14 Feb
'02
4:27 p.m.
"Steven M. Schultz" <sms(a)2BSD.COM> wrote:
I thought that I'd read in the FM that they do. I see now that I was
mistaken, perhaps delusional. I see now that <sys/stat.h> contains the gospel:
#define S_IFIFO 0010000 /* named pipe (fifo) - Not used by 2.11BSD */
Sounds like I'm in for some deep hacking if I continue with this. Will
overlays help me here?
I wonder if setitimer() will fare any better. alarm() is obsolete.
I'll send a progress report if I decide to continue this project. Thanks for
your help, Mr. Schultz.
David Talmage
From: David W
Talmage <talmage(a)cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Would someone please advise me about fifos and sockets in 2.11BSD?
...
Don't use fifos - they don't exist (as you probably have found
out by now :)) I'm
having
trouble porting screen 3.9.9, the multiplexing terminal emulator, to 2.11BSD
...
an attempt at porting it and ran into the address space problems - seems
that screen wants to use lots of large buffers, has lots of strings
(all the help, etc) and so on. ...
> screen can use sockets instead of fifos. That portion of the configure
script
fails as well.
It fails in that it does not return from the select() on the
socket until the alarm goes off. See
socketstest.c, below.
...
With the child exited the select() will block until interrupted by
the alarm() call.