Standards Update, IEEE 1003.4: Real-time Extensions

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.ferranti.com
Thu Oct 4 03:19:04 AEST 1990


Submitted-by: peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)

In article <13132 at cs.utexas.edu> fouts at bozeman.bozeman.ingr (Martin Fouts) writes:
> 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.

Provide an example, considering the advantages of having shell level
visibility of objects has for (a) debugging, (b) system administration,
(c) integration, (d)...

It's nice to be able to fake a program out with a shell script.
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