Re: User vs. Kernel (was: To be smug, or not to be smug, that is , the question)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 24 Jan 1999 14:29:58 +0000 (GMT)

> >> entirely from userland.
> >
> > sure it was implemented - i've used it in (apparently small) project.
>
> In userland, you can't support message queues in select() like AIX can.

Im amazed people stil use them, they are a classic example of retrofitting
somethng un-needed onto unix without the people at the time thinking what
they were doing.

Alan

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