From: Steven Lumos <steven@...>
Date: 2007-01-03T04:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: System V IPC in standard library?

"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net> writes:
> Sam Roberts wrote:
>> Quoting steven.jenkins@ieee.org, on Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:00:09AM +0900:
>>   
>>> I'm not really advocating one way or the other, but I wanted to let the
>>> core team know that it's an option at this point. Feel free to ask any
>>> questions.
>>>     
>>
>> Sys V ipc is pretty widely available, I think it would be useful for
>> ruby to come with it as a bundled extension. I know people who would
>> have used it if it was included, but built there own because it wasn't.
>>
>> Sam
>>   
> Solaris? Check
> Tru64? Check
> Linux? Check
> BSD?

Of course.

> MacOS?

Ditto BSD.

> Windows?

cygipc?

> HPUX?

with standard HP-UX caveats.

> OS/2?

Interesting.  If anyone cares about OS/2, there's EMX which is a much
better deal than cygwin.  As with most of OS/2, the native APIs for
(un)named memory, pipes, etc are quite nice.

Steve