Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 03:20:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 03:20:06 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-rdu.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:57040 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 03:20:05 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 03:24:26 -0400 From: Jakub Jelinek To: Krzysztof Benedyczak Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Wronski Subject: Re: [PATCH] POSIX message queues Message-ID: <20020901032426.X7920@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Reply-To: Jakub Jelinek References: <20020827231625.A7961@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from golbi@mat.uni.torun.pl on Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 03:28:43PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1001 Lines: 23 On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 03:28:43PM +0200, Krzysztof Benedyczak wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > The multiplexer syscall is horribly ugly. I'd suggest implementing it > > as filesystems so each message queue object can be represented as file, > > using defined file methods as much as possible. > > It seems clever. In fact previous version used file representation in > very simple and rather undesirable way so we resigned from it. But we > can try to change it. I have written MQ as filesystem about 2 years ago, see: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0011.2/0639.html (though did not manage to update it since then). Dunno if it is easier to update the patch or write it from scratch though... Jakub - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/