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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 23:02:04 +0100
From: Peter Waechtler <pwaechtler@mac.com>
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To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] unified SysV and Posix mqueues as FS
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Alexander Viro schrieb:
> 
> 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?

Parden? Where are directories used?
create a file, give it a size, mmap it and serialize access to it with locks.
That's all.
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