Re: POSIX.1 semaphores vs message queues

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 04:41:18PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 08:05:25PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
 >  > One final attempt to summarize the objections that have been made:
 >  > [snip]
 > 
 > One other thing: posix semaphores used to be a module. That code was
 > made the victim^W showpiece for demonstrating how the New World Order
 > was going to be. When the New World Order turned out to be broken,
 > that and other things were rolled back after a lengthy political
 > squabble.
 > 
 > Part of the resistance you're seeing is the legacy of that squabble,
 > even though people probably don't really want to say so.

One other point: the changes add mechanism, and that mechanism has a
cost (in maintenance if nothing else) -- if the changes are more or
less pointless as a number of people think, then we'd be paying that
cost for zero or negligible benefit. That does seem like a valid
reason to oppose such changes.

for my part during the above-mentioned squabble I made it pretty clear
that I think aggressive use of kernel modules is at best tilting at
windmills; I stand by that position, but I'm not really interested in
fighting about it at the moment so I won't stick my oar in any
further.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost