From: Ran Yakir (ryakir++at++vizrt.com)
Date: 09/26/2002 13:02:57
My last posting was rejected due to its size. I am now resending with only
sproc.c attached.
Regards
Ran
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ran Yakir
> Sent: Thu, September 26, 2002 10:55 PM
> To: 'Praveen Bhaniramka'; Rob Body
> Cc: 'info-performer++at++sgi.com'
> Subject: RE: [info-performer] converting IRIX sproc to LINUX clone
>
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> I believe Praveen was mentioning something I posted on
> info-performer quite some time ago. It is an emulation of
> sproc() using pthreads. The reason I did it was because I
> needed Performer clip-texture capabilities in an application
> that uses pthreads. Performer was using sproc() for the
> clip-texture paging thread, so I needed to "cheat" it into
> believing that it was still using sproc, while actually
> calling pthread_create.
> You can use the source code of sproc.c. It may need some
> modifications since it was written for Irix.
>
> Regards
> Ran
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Praveen Bhaniramka [mailto:praveenb++at++gauri.engr.sgi.com]
> > Sent: Thu, September 26, 2002 8:40 PM
> > To: Rob Body
> > Cc: 'info-performer++at++sgi.com'
> > Subject: Re: [info-performer] converting IRIX sproc to LINUX clone
> >
> >
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > I think that there has been some work done on "emulating"
> sprocs using
> > pthreads... I believe that this was done in that case to
> > allow a pthreads
> > based application to interoperate with sprocs. You might be
> > able to dig it
> > out from info-performer archives.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Praveen
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Rob Body wrote:
> >
> > > Hi pfFriends,
> > >
> > > I have an SGI Performer app that communicates using the
> > serial port using
> > > sproc(function name, PR_SALL) and would like to replicate
> > it on my Linux PC.
> > > sproc has not yet been implemented (as far as I can see) in
> > Performer on
> > > Linux and the closest equivalent seems to be clone. Has
> > anyone successfully
> > > converted sproc to clone or is pthreads a better option ?
> > >
> > > Any pointers would be much appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Rob
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