On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 12:12:01PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > Dimitris Papastamos wrote: > > I did some very crude benchmarking on my machine and I could push > > about 100k messages per second through a single message queue. > > > > At this point, I can start working on manpages + the necessary > > userspace glue. > > > > Is this patch going in the right direction? > > I don't know. I don't think anybody is very excited about mq... > > A lot of openbsd daemons use the imsg framework that we've built, which I > think overlaps here. imsg only exists on OpenBSD, but mechanism it's built on > is portable, just basic unix stuff. > > Some analysis or discussion about how imsg could be improved or replaced by > mq would be interesting. Otherwise this looks like a feature we won't be > using, nor is it widely used by others. > > I think the openbsd position on posix conformance is to try to conform > for the features we have, but not try very hard to chase down all the latest > additions. We'd prefer in some ways to be a bit behind the times.
Interesting, thanks for getting back to me. I will look into imsg. Do you have a TODO on outstanding posix conformance type of work for already implemented interfaces? I am interested to help in this area.
