IPC namespace

[Chris Torek]

In article <7507 at ncoast.UUCP> allbery at ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
>... Make up your minds: why is a BSD socket not supposed to be in
>the file namespace, but System V IPC (in particular, message queues
>and semaphores) is flamed for it?

AF_UNIX sockets are and should be in the file system space, but
the implementation is kludgey and incomplete.  They should be
(and, I predict, will be) reworked to fix this.
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