Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:45:34 -0800 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: User vs. Kernel (was: To be smug, or not to be smug, that is , the question) |
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On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 10:09:35PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > The original poster said "generalized message passing" and you > > responded with something that can pass 4 or 8 bytes between > > processes with the same UID. That isn't very general. > > You mean "can pass an address". Now add a shared memory block and > the rest is trivial
POSIX does have message queues that can send effectively arbitrary amount of data. It's not been implemented, though it may be doable entirely from userland.
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