Physical location of Posix message queues

[Nicholas Miell]

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 18:19 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 19:27 -0400, William Beebe wrote:
> > I'm porting an application from Solaris to Fedora Core. Everything is
> > fine except for one issue regarding the use of Posix message queues.
> > In order to solve this problem I'd like to know where the message
> > queues are physically located. 
> 
> what do you mean by "physically located" ???
> 

On Solaris, POSIX message queues have a physical representation on the
filesystem.

Linux just uses a small virtual filesystem which typically isn't even
mounted. Note that the use of the mq_* syscalls doesn't require the
mqueue fs to be mounted.

-- 
Nicholas Miell <nmiell at comcast.net>