Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-02,: Re: [PATCH] replace SYSV shared memory with shm filesystem

# Re: [PATCH] replace SYSV shared memory with shm filesystem

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
10 Jan 2000 22:38:06 -0800

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In article <20000110145913.01335@colin.muc.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:
>
>I planed to map the Unix Sockets abstract name space to a file system
>for some time now. Because it would be silly to write another file
>system just for that rather obscure feature, would it be possible
>to use a subdirectory in your new shm filesystem?

I'd much rather _not_ do it like that.

Remembe: do one thing, and do it well. Mixing up seveal conceptually
unrelated things just ends up a maintenance nightmare, and implies tying
the two together more than necessary.

What if somebody wants shared memory but not UNIX domain sockets? Or
vice versa? Issues like that add extra and unnecessary complexity if you
want to tie the functionality together.

Linus

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