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- Submitted-by: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
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- According to fouts@bozeman.bozeman.ingr (Martin Fouts):
- >One reason to not treat every IPC facility as part of the file system:
- >Shared memory IPC mechanisms which don't need to be visible to processes
- >not participating in the IPC.
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- Yes, it is obviously desirable to have IPC entities without names.
- This feature is a simple extension of the present ability to keep a
- plain file open after its link count falls to zero. Of course, the
- committee could botch the job by making it an error to completely
- unlink a live IPC.
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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 186
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