Standards Update, IEEE 1003.4: Real-time Extensions

[Martin Fouts]

Submitted-by: fouts at bozeman.bozeman.ingr (Martin Fouts)

>>>>> On 27 Sep 90 20:03:39 GMT, chip at tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) said:

Chip> Given Unix, where devices -- even those with removable media -- are
Chip> accessed through the filesystem, I can see no reason whatsoever to
Chip> treat network connections and other IPC facilities differently.
Chip> -- 

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.

Marty
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Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 169