Standards Update, IEEE 1003.4: Real-time Extensions

[Chip Salzenberg]

Submitted-by: chip at tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)

According to fouts at 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.

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.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip at tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>

Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 186