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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:48:07PM +0200, Krzysztof Benedyczak wrote:
> Awaiting comments, feedbacks, etc. (especially about above two points)

The multiplexer syscall is horribly ugly. I'd suggest implementing it
as filesystems so each message queue object can be represented as file,
using defined file methods as much as possible.