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[Jörg Wunsch]
> But Jordan, don't add SYSVMSG, almost nobody uses them.  They are
> really non-generic in a world that can use sockets to pass messages.
> (I know that there are differences, but nevertheless, they are not in
> wide use.)

KDE depends on them, so they might arguably be in very large use very
soon.  Of course, KDE hasn't deployed yet, so we might be able to talk
them out of using it still...

Eivind.