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- The NBS Common Memory System (CMS)
- Sept 25, 1987
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- This system emulates a shared memory system for 4.2BSD. A common
- memory server handles requests to access shared variables. Because
- communication uses TCP/IP, processes may be distributed across
- machines.
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- The system is all user level code and requires no kernel
- modifications. This implementation provides interfaces for C and
- Franz Lisp. It is known to work on Sun UNIX releases from 1.0 to
- 3.4.
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- The system is documented by the files in the doc directory.
- doc/usenix contains a paper that was presented at the Summer 1985
- Usenix Conference. The system has changed somewhat since then.
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- Installation instructions
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- This package depends upon a tiny communications library called
- streamlib which must be installed first.
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- cd stream
- cat README
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- and follow the directions in there.
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- Once you have installed streamlib, change to the common memory
- source directory and run make.
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- cd ../src
- make install
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- If you would like to try out some of the examples, type:
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- make examples
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- The examples are numbered as sets. I.e. client1 runs with server1.
- The most interesting is server1y, server1z, client1a and client1b.
- Run these in 4 different windows. They are documented by their
- source and serve as coding examples.
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- Don Libes
- National Bureau of Standards
- Metrology Building, Room A-127
- Gaithersburg, MD 20899
- (301) 975-3535
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- libes@cme-durer.arpa
- uunet!cme-durer!libes
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