there is lot's of info on message queues (and other ipc stuff) in Unix Network Programming, Volume 2, Second Edition: Interprocess Communications w.r. stevens book. there is also a posix test suite available at (http://posixtest.sourceforge.net) for testing compatibility with IEEE Std. 1003.1-2001 iirc, you can get message queues in 2.6 -mm kernels (its implemented as a mqueue filesystem). userland library provides appropriate interface to it. hth anupam Zeeshan Ali <zeelists@yahoo.com> writes: > Hello everyone, > Thanks for all the suggestions. I think I would > like to go for the idea of message queues, but dont > know how to do it :( Well, i gues there must be > something about it in the LDD, let me search... > > --- Mike DeKoker <mdekoker@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> You might also consider using message queues. That >> way >> you don't have to mess with implementing a device or >> adding to /proc. >> >> -Mike DeKoker > > > ===== > --------------------------------------------------------- > "To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralysed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it." --Bertrand Russell > > "We are convinced that freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice, and that Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality." from the book: "The Political Philosophy of Bakunin". > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
