Comment 17 for bug 1155695

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Michael Kerrisk (mtk-manpages) wrote : Re: [Bug 1155695] Re: mq_overview(7) contains outdated, inaccurate fs.mqueue.queues_max limit description

On 02/19/2014 11:01 AM, Arto Bendiken wrote:
> Just to follow up on this, we have since abandoned the use of POSIX
> message queues altogether so this issue is no longer an ongoing concern
> for us.
>
> Still, the mq_overview(7) man page continues to refer to the outdated,
> inaccurate queues_max hard limit (INT_MAX instead of 1024) at least as
> of Ubuntu 13.10.

Yes, it's been on my long TODO list to follow this up. Doc will get fixed,
and I hope the kernel too. Tell me, was this limitation the reason to
abandon PMQs?

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