In article <jpo.726998071@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> jpo@kappa.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Joerg Pommnitz) writes:

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>Some days ago Peter MacDonald wrote, that he had included
>the ipcbeta patches to the SLS release. 
>Isn't it time to make this beast part of the standard kernel ?
>It will become harder and harder to apply these patches,
>if the kernel changes more and more.
>I think, having shared memory, message queues and semaphores
>isn't such a bad idea.

Linus is of course the definite authority on this, but I'd like to add
my two cents. I think there should be some limit to what gets added to
Linux; does it really need everything? If I remember correctly, one of
the goals Linus had was to keep Linux a small and simple, but Posix
compatible kernel. 

We don't want Linux to become a new AIX, do we?

If Peter MacDonald distributes a kernel different from the "standard"
kernel (Linus' version), then I think it is questionable if that
kernel is Linux at all.

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Johan Myreen
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