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From: cliffs@organic.com (Cliff Skolnick)
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 14:00:19 PST
In-Reply-To: Rob Hartill <hartill@ooo.lanl.gov>
       "Re: More on logging" (Jun  8,  1:46pm)
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Subject: Re: More on logging
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Instead of SHMEM, you can use mmap() to simulate shared memory.  I'd
write the code to go either way, then you cover 100% of modern UNIX
variants and many older ones.

On Jun 8,  1:46pm, Rob Hartill wrote:
} Subject: Re: More on logging
} > 
} > > > If the logging process is the parent, then it should simply be
} > > > passing a pointer to a log information structure for the child to
} > > > fill in as it handles the request. 
} > > 
} > > doesn't that need shared memory ?
} > 
} > I suppose it does. As I mentioned in earlier mail, some of thes
} > features probably can't be available to *all* UNIX variants.
} > I admit that logging is an important one, but we can always
} > leave the standard CLF in place for those.
} > 
} > Are there other ways besides SHMEM to accomplish this?
} 
} Yup, all children drop the info down a socket to the logging process :-)
} 
} --
} Rob Hartill                           
} http://nqcd.lanl.gov/~hartill/
}-- End of excerpt from Rob Hartill