From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Jan 28 07:29:50 2010 Message-ID: <4B6182DD.5090106@atari-source.org> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:28:13 -0500 From: Mark Duckworth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] mono References: <11a6f2b11001270642j41b73ecepfd4a7a7cbb3fb354@mail.gmail.com> <4B6176DC.8080500@gandon.org> In-Reply-To: <4B6176DC.8080500@gandon.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On 1/28/10 6:37 AM, Benjamin Gandon wrote: > 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 ? > > IIRC with screen you can get around the named pipes issue but I ran into something else when porting it. I forget what now. Thanks, Mark