Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:44:13 +0100 | From | Dominik Kubla <> | Subject | Re: POSIX releated question. |
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On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 07:28:30AM -0500, Steven N. Hirsch wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Santhosh Kumar M [CEC-S] wrote: > > > I want to use posix releated IPC calls like mq_open, shm_open etc. > > To use these, should i have install some patch or is it not supported in > > linux. The header files to be icluded is "mqueue.h" which is not present > > in the include directory. > > This is off-topic, but several comments:
No it is definitely not.
> 1. I've never heard of 'mq_open' or 'shm_open'.
Look at the relevant POSIX standards...
> 2. Take a look at <sys/shm.h> and <sys/msg.h> for the calls which do > exist.
Which implement System V IPC not POSIX. Christoph Roland implemented POSIX SHM for 2.3.34. You can find his announcement at:
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9912.3/0374.html
For POSIX message queues i am not sure if there is a patch...
> In the future, try grepping for the prototypes in /usr/include/*
grep does not replace knowledge of what one is talking about.
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