Re: POSIX message queues, libmqueue: mq_open, mq_unlink

[Ulrich Drepper]

Alex Riesen wrote:

> Looking over the code in libmqueue-4.31, I noticed the checks for the
> name validity in the mq_open and mq_unlink. Why are they needed?  They
> are pointless if the code in kernel depends on the valid name,

You are contradicting yourself.

Anyway, non-absolute path names passed to the functions mean the
behavior is unspecified.  No portable application must ever do this.  It
is enforced for this reason plus if there comes a time when we want to
do something special which doesn't conflict with standard-compliant
behavior we have a possibility for that.  Unlike wh6at you think, the
tests *are* useful.

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