Steven N. Hirsch writes:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Santhosh Kumar M [CEC-S] wrote:
>
> > I want to use posix releated IPC calls like mq_open, shm_open etc.
> > To use these, should i have install some patch or is it not supported in
> > linux. The header files to be icluded is "mqueue.h" which is not present
> > in the include directory.
>
> This is off-topic,
You mean his question or your reply? His question is on-topic.
> but several comments:
>
> 1. I've never heard of 'mq_open' or 'shm_open'.
As he said, they are the POSIX (.1c) API for IPC. If you haven't even
heard of them, why answer?
> 2. Take a look at <sys/shm.h> and <sys/msg.h> for the calls which do
> exist.
>
> In the future, try grepping for the prototypes in /usr/include/*
I rather suspect he already knows the SysV API is there but is
interested in whether the POSIX API is supported. If I recall, someone
is gluing together an "IPC" filesystem which, together with some other
kernel additions (i.e. it's not simply a namespace issue) will get
the POSIX API working. I don't know, though, whether there's any hope
of it getting into 2.4: I haven't seen much mentioned on linux-kernel
or linux-mm recently so it's fairly late for 2.4 unless it's being
integrated silently.
--Malcolm
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