Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jan 1999 07:34:08 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: User vs. Kernel (was: To be smug, or not to be smug, that is , the question) |
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Alan Cox writes: > > >> entirely from userland. > > > > > > sure it was implemented - i've used it in (apparently small) project. > > > > In userland, you can't support message queues in select() like AIX can. > > Im amazed people stil use them, they are a classic example of retrofitting > somethng un-needed onto unix without the people at the time thinking what > they were doing.
Agreed! What the hell is wrong with a pipe/socketpair anyway? It fits right in there in the everything-is-a-file model. Message queues don't.
Regards,
Richard....
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