On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 21:44 -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > George Wilson wrote: > > > I don't think this is breaking any functionality, so... do we care? > > > > Good question. I don't know what's using POSIX MQs. > > POSIX message queues are a general mechanism, every program can use > them. They are much faster than the SysV message queues.
Good to know the advantage of POSIX mq over SysV mq. I was wondering about this. :-) > The filesystem is mainly used to clean up. Message queues can have > names and they stay around, unless removed, if the processes using them > are going away. Not everybody should have permission to do everything > on the filesystem but message queues have owners and those owners must > be able to remove them. The problem I'm seeing happens even when using mq_open(3) to create a new message queue, without mounting or explicitly using the mqueue filesystem. -- []'s Thiago Jung Bauermann Software Engineer IBM Linux Technology Center -- redhat-lspp mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-lspp
