Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] unified SysV and Posix mqueues as FS | Date | 27 Oct 2002 11:49:43 -0800 |
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Followup to: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0210271052170.1416-100000@steklov.math.psu.edu> By author: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Peter Waechtler wrote: > > > I applied the patch from Jakub against 2.5.44 > > There are still open issues but it's important to get this in before > > feature freeze. > > > > While you can implement Posix mqueues in userland (Irix is doing this > > with fcntl(fd,F_SETLKW,) and shmem) a kernel implementation has some advantages: > > *thud* > > ioctls on _directories_, of all things? >
Yup. There are plenty of them already.
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