On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Timothy S. Nelson <wayl...@wayland.id.au> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Leon Timmermans wrote: > >> I think most forms of IPC should be addons, if only because they have >> inherent unportability. Stuff like sockets and pipes should be in >> obviously, signals maybe (they have lots of portability issues, but >> they may be too often used to just drop), but things like SysV IPC >> really shouldn't. Anything more high level should definitely not go in >> the core. > > Ok, I agree about the SysV IPC. Files and Sockets are in. As for > the rest, I have another question -- should they be part of a Unix-only > class? >
I don't understand your question; what do you mean with 'they' here? Anything not in the core doesn't have to be specced at all for now.
