From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Jan 28 06:41:19 2010 Message-ID: <4B6176DC.8080500@gandon.org> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:37:00 +0100 From: Benjamin Gandon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Helmut Karlowski CC: "mint@lists.fishpool.fi" Subject: Re: [MiNT] mono References: <11a6f2b11001270642j41b73ecepfd4a7a7cbb3fb354@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: benjamin.mint@gandon.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o0SBfJHd015453 Helmut Karlowski a écrit : > Am 27.01.2010, 21:19 Uhr, schrieb Standa Opichal : > >> itself. Two basic common >> things missing in our kernel for easy ports: virtual memory (and the >> libc mmap()) and threading (pthreads). >> >> Somebody should provide these for FreeMiNT on the CF machine (and >> perhaps on 040/060) or you >> risk porting modern packages will always be great pain + rarely ever >> a possibility for upstream >> acceptance. > > I agree - This should be the main goal after the 1.17 release. But 030 > could also get virtual memory. I also heard about named pipes that are missing when trying to port GNU Screen. Ref: [fr] http://strider.mjjprod.free.fr/blog/index.php?post/2008/10/07/Compilation-de-rTorrent-et-de-GNU-Screen-sous-MiNT Just wondering : are named pipes a must-have or something that can wait ?