From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 12 11:51:18 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA11069 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 11:51:18 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA11063 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 11:51:16 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA18556; Mon, 12 Jun 95 12:44:04 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9506121844.AA18556@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Minor nits about bindist... To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 95 12:44:03 MDT Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506112116.PAA29165@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Jun 11, 95 03:15:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > VMS usually has a mailbox that you write commands to (gross > simplification). The mailbox has a protection of some sort. The > closest thing on Unix is a named pipe. Maybe a named pipe might not > be a bad idea for things like mountd controlling. Programmer response: I'd rather use System V message queues... Little kid response: I'd rather eat bugs... Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.