Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 13 Nov 2000 11:17:27 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: State of Posix compliance in v2.2/v2.4 kernel? |
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Jakub Jelinek wrote: > Well, it does not do its best. There are several areas where kernel should > help, things like POSIX semaphores would be much faster with kernel support, > likewise threads if some things Ulrich stated here a couple of months > ago were done in the kernel,
Would it be reasonable to have these needs documented in a central location, with patches attached where possible?
Making people other than Linus aware of the technical issues can only benefit the cause of POSIX compliancy, IMHO...
> POSIX message queue passing is not doable in > userland without kernel help either (I have a message queue filesystem > kernel patch for this, but it is a 2.5 thing).
If its small and standalone and doesn't touch existing infrastructure...
Regards,
Jeff
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