POSIX Message Queues [Broken?]

[Mike McCarty]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Shay, Daniel writes:
> 
>> I've noticed POSIX message queues are relatively new to the Linux 2.6
>> kernel, is the support just not finished?
> 
> 
> Nobody really cared about posix message queues for at least a decade.  
> They're broken by design.

Care to support that statement? (Though it is topic drift.)

I'm no POSIX expert, though I have written some POSIX compliant
multithreaded programs using real time signals. I like the way
the POSIX stuff generally works, with deferred operations
being done in a consistent manner, and I liked the way
the real time signals work. I also have used the shared memory,
and found it to be very easy to use.

What is wrong with the way POSIX message queues work?

Mike
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