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karthikbalaguru

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Jan 31, 2010, 9:54:28 AM1/31/10
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Hi,
I understand that ftok shall return
a key that can be used in IPC.
But, what is the expansion for
ftok ?

Thx in advans,
Karthik Balaguru

karthikbalaguru

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Jan 31, 2010, 10:39:31 AM1/31/10
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On Jan 31, 7:54 pm, karthikbalaguru <karthikbalagur...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I understand that ftok shall return
> a key that can be used in IPC.
> But, what is the expansion for
> ftok ?
>

To be clear -
What does each letter 'f' , 't' , 'o' ,'k'
refer to ? Any ideas ?

karthikbalaguru

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Jan 31, 2010, 12:31:45 PM1/31/10
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On Jan 31, 9:00 pm, Nicolas George <nicolas$geo...@salle-s.org> wrote:
> karthikbalaguru  wrote in message
>
> <5c52fff4-2d0d-4757-99bf-8e27c9530...@b36g2000pri.googlegroups.com>:

>
> > What does each letter 'f' , 't' , 'o' ,'k'
> > refer to ?  Any ideas ?
>
> File TO Key?

Hey Nicolas,
That sounds reasonable.

Is it File TOken ?

Karthik Balaguru

Karthik Balaguru

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Feb 7, 2010, 3:25:56 AM2/7/10
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On Feb 7, 1:23 pm, Karthik Balaguru <karthikbalagur...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2:30 am, Torsten Robitzki <MyFirstn...@robitzki.de> wrote:
>
> > karthikbalaguru schrieb:

>
> > > To be clear -
> > > What does each letter 'f' , 't' , 'o' ,'k'
> > > refer to ?  Any ideas ?
>
> > I would guess "File TO Key".
>
> Okay, i will go with "File TO Key"
>
> Strange that there is no place
> of mention of expansion for
> ftok w.r.t IPC in internet !!
>
> I landed up in something like
> 'Functional Test OK' etc etc.
> But, not for ftok w.r.t IPC.
>

Thx,
Karthik Balaguru

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