Physical location of Posix message queues

William Beebe wbeebe at gmail.com
Thu May 26 23:07:29 UTC 2005


That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure. Thanks.

On 5/26/05, Nicholas Miell <nmiell at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 18:19 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 19:27 -0400, William Beebe wrote:
> > > I'm porting an application from Solaris to Fedora Core. Everything is
> > > fine except for one issue regarding the use of Posix message queues.
> > > In order to solve this problem I'd like to know where the message
> > > queues are physically located [on the file system].
> >
> > what do you mean by "physically located" ???
> >
> 
> On Solaris, POSIX message queues have a physical representation on the
> filesystem.
> 
> Linux just uses a small virtual filesystem which typically isn't even
> mounted. Note that the use of the mq_* syscalls doesn't require the
> mqueue fs to be mounted.
> 
> --
> Nicholas Miell <nmiell at comcast.net>
> 
>




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