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[Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>]

Howdy,

seems I've finally managed to sub-scribe (greetings ecartis!) to the list.
:-) Some might already know me. I've been one of the Haiku developers since 
2002. My fields of activity have been manifold, reaching from generic 
kernel work to GUI layout management. About two months ago I've started to 
port the tool chain that is required for developing Haiku under Haiku. So 
far gcc, binutils, Perl, most of the auto tools, OpenSSL, and OpenSSH are 
done (respectively in a state at least as good as they were for BeOS).

My current project is Subversion and its dependencies. I've begun looking 
into APR today. I'd like to approach it from a different angle than 
Andreas, though. Instead of making use of the already contained BeOS code, 
I'd rather extend Haiku's POSIX compatibility and use the generic Unix 
code. AFAICT the main features missing are POSIX semaphores and shared 
memory. I've already made some progress with the former today, and I don't 
see any serious problems with POSIX shared memory either. Hopefully I'm not 
too optimistic. :-)

CU, Ingo

PS: In case anyone is interested, I've still got a BeOS R5 net server patch 
against APR 1.0.1 (which is the version included in the "jam" package 
downloadable from Haiku's website). It weighs in about 90 KB and I can't 
tell, if any part of it has made its way into newer versions. I tried to 
send it upstream at that time, but when that didn't go as smoothly as I 
hope, I stopped to bother as BeOS isn't really a platform I'm much 
interested in anymore.

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