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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: IPC namespace
Message-ID: <10684@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 88 23:17:47 GMT
References: <9100@ism780c.UUCP> <2329@umd5.umd.edu> <2009@ho95e.ATT.COM> <7507@ncoast.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <7507@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
>... Make up your minds: why is a BSD socket not supposed to be in
>the file namespace, but System V IPC (in particular, message queues
>and semaphores) is flamed for it?

AF_UNIX sockets are and should be in the file system space, but
the implementation is kludgey and incomplete.  They should be
(and, I predict, will be) reworked to fix this.
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