On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> > Fine, a queue runner creates the shared segment, but who updates the
> > shared segment as messages arrive and depart, so that it reflects
> > reality when the next queue runner process finds it already exists?
>
> No-one, but the queue runner will update it when it wakes up
> next.
... er, but in order to do that it has to scan the spool directories to
find the files, and I thought that was what this whole scheme was trying
to avoid?
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