Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jan 1998 13:22:31 -0600 (CST) | From | Kamran <> | Subject | Re: 3.0 wishlist Was: Overview of 2.2.x goals? |
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Hi,
James Mastros wrote: >On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, linux kernel account wrote: [...] >> * Possibly DIPC integration, at least some of the >> clustering features that arn't WAY out there. (support >> for a daemon providing shared pid space) >Not hard to add as a patch, [...]
It is hard for the DIPC development team to prepare the patches for the new kernels.
> [...] and I think it's going to stay that way till we >see some standard for DIPC. [...]
DIPC changes some standard UNIX mechanisms (System V IPC), in a _very_ compatible way, to do its work.
> [...] (BTW -- DIPC != clustering -- Distributed >Interprocess Communication)
Depends on your definition of clustering. Windows NT has "clustering", but it is more about fault tolerance. A page-based distributed shared memory system is really hard to find on commercial operating systems.
I think DIPC is a very useful addition to Linux, and it would be better for it to get into the standard kernels as soon as possible. We have been tracking Linux kernel releases for about two years (DIPC has been usable right from its first "alpha" release), and have been forced to adapt DIPC's kernel patches to the changes people make there. I and other people working on DIPC can not continue doing so for ever.
-Kamran Karimi
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