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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Futex Asynchronous Interface
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 17:36, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> You have a damn mutex system call, don't introduce mode crap in /dev.
> 
> Do we create pipes by opening /dev/pipe? No. Do we have major and minor
> numbers for sockets and populate /dev with them? No. And as a result,
> there has _never_ been any sysadmin problems with either.

Its a bitch trying to create sockets in shell scripts isnt it. I wonder
if there is a connection 8)

Alan
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