Heres the flame everyones asking for

[Root Boy Jim]

   From: Mike Ditto <ford at kenobi.uucp>

   Not all the IPC functions are directly mappable to read, write, etc.,
   (what should reading from a semaphore do?)

It should do (dare I say it?) a P operation! And a write could do a V.
Multiple counts could be specified by the byte count! And you could
query the semaphore or specify no waiting by using an ioctl!

Are we having fun yet?

	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell	<rbj at icst-cmr.arpa>
	National Bureau of Standards
	Flamer's Hotline: (301) 975-5688
I'm having an EMOTIONAL OUTBURST!!  But, uh, WHY is there a WAFFLE
 in my PAJAMA POCKET??