Re: [PATCH] Futex Asynchronous Interface

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 17:36, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> You have a damn mutex system call, don't introduce mode crap in /dev.
> 
> Do we create pipes by opening /dev/pipe? No. Do we have major and minor
> numbers for sockets and populate /dev with them? No. And as a result,
> there has _never_ been any sysadmin problems with either.

Its a bitch trying to create sockets in shell scripts isnt it. I wonder
if there is a connection 8)

Alan