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- From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
-
- > Finally, the group accepted abandoning the use of
- > file descriptors for semaphore handles, but some participants
- > wanted to keep semaphore names pathnames.
-
- Aargh! Almost everyone realizes that System V IPC is a botch, largely
- because it doesn't live in the filesystem. So what does IEEE do?
- They take IPC out of the filesystem!
-
- What sane reason could there be to introduce Yet Another Namespace?
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- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
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- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 65
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