Re: [PATCH] unified SysV and Posix mqueues as FS

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 27 2002 - 10:53:10 EST

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On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Peter Waechtler wrote:

> I applied the patch from Jakub against 2.5.44
> There are still open issues but it's important to get this in before
> feature freeze.
>
> While you can implement Posix mqueues in userland (Irix is doing this
> with fcntl(fd,F_SETLKW,) and shmem) a kernel implementation has some advantages:

*thud*

ioctls on _directories_, of all things?

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