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  • From: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Lowish level sorcery changes
  • Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:25:11 +1000

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On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:21, Dufflebunk wrote:
> I've attached the new liblock. It's not in devel sorcery yet. It won't
> go in until I can properly run devel sorcery (that's when devel works
> with test grimoire again). However, that's no reason other people can't
> test it. Do backup your local setting in /etc/sorcery, and stuff in
> /var/state/sorcery. People have tested this so it shouldn't cause Bad
> Things. If you do want to try it out, just replace liblock (it's a drop
> in replacement), and let me know if there are any issues that come up.
>

I'll give this a try now.

> And just to stir things up I'll also mention this, Andrew has written a
> thin wrapper around the sysv message passing stuff for me and I've
> written an interface lib in bash for it. The makes it possible to write
> bash script that pass messages efficiently. I would like to add this to
> sorcery. It would enable us to remove the nasty hacks in there, like
> using files in /tmp for inter-process notices
> (/tmp/casting.*.some-spell.download.success for example). I clocked it
> at 600 ping-pongs / second. It would make the asynchronus stuff much
> nicer to work with. It would be a very nice thing to have, however, it
> requires that the sysv kernel stuff be compiled in and of course the
> binary wrapper. Are those reasonable requirements? Does anyone not have
> sysv stuff compiled in

is this the sysv stuff you mean ?
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
I would have assumed everyone had it ?
anyway i do so i vote for progress!
Hamish

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