Re: [PATCH] POSIX message queues

From: Jakub Jelinek (jakub@redhat.com)
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 02:24:26 EST


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
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