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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Alex Riesen <fork0@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: POSIX message queues, libmqueue: mq_open, mq_unlink
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:17:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40805B80.30105@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040416213851.GA1784@steel.home>

Alex Riesen wrote:

> And if the kernel code does check the incoming arguments correctly,
> what is the point to check them again? Just to make the point, that
> passing in not an absolute path is not portable?

Forget what the kernel does.  This is enforcement of the API the runtime
provides.  If must be stable regardless of what the kernel does.
Including kernel changes which allow special names which do funky,
non-standard things.

-- 
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-16 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-16  8:11 POSIX message queues, libmqueue: mq_open, mq_unlink Alex Riesen
2004-04-16 16:13 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-04-16 21:38   ` Alex Riesen
2004-04-16 22:17     ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2004-04-16 22:22     ` Chris Wright
2004-04-16 23:43       ` Alex Riesen
2004-04-16 23:56         ` Chris Wright
2004-04-17  8:20           ` Alex Riesen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-17 10:49 Manfred Spraul
2004-04-17 11:16 ` Alex Riesen

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