Re: [MiNT] mono

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.org>]

On 1/28/10 6:37 AM, Benjamin Gandon wrote:
> Helmut Karlowski a écrit :
> > Am 27.01.2010, 21:19 Uhr, schrieb Standa Opichal <opichals@seznam.cz>:
> >
> > > 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