1 Feb
2017
1 Feb
'17
10:21 p.m.
I*'m not sure what you mean by CB3, but these features (shared memory,
semaphores, IPC) were added to CB-UNIX (Bell Labs, Columbus) precisely
because they were needed in real time telco systems and not preset in
the versions from New Jersey. This would have been in the early 1980s.
When I got there in 1981 I think CB-UNIX was already well established
and had these features. (These would show up, ironically, in /usr/ucb,
which did not stand for Berkeley.)
Mary Ann
On 02/01/2017 06:18 AM, Paul Ruizendaal wrote:
The presence of some sort of shared memory facility in
the
BBN V6 Unix kernel got me thinking about the origins of
shared memory on Unix.
I had a vague recollection that primordial versions were present
in either PWB or CB3, but a quick glance at the source indicates
that this is not correct.
What are the origins of shared memory on Unix, i.e. what came
before mmap() and SysV IPC? Was the BBN kernel the first to
implement such a facility on Unix?
Paul