Tom Lane wrote:
> I think the subtext there is that the Linux kernel hackers hate the SysV
> IPC APIs and wish they'd go away. They are presently constrained from
> removing 'em by their desire for POSIX compliance, but you won't get
> them to make any changes that might result in those APIs becoming more
> widely used :-(
>
> Mind you, I find the SysV APIs uselessly baroque too, but there is one
> feature that we have to have that is not in mmap(): the ability to
> detect other processes attached to a shmem block.
Didn't we solve this problem on Windows? Can we do a similar thing in
Unix and get ride of the SysV stuff?