Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Aug 2013 08:11:41 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: RFC: named anonymous vmas |
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On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 04:36:08AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote: > I'm not sure what the purpose is. shm_open with a long random filename > and O_EXCL|O_CREAT, followed immediately by shm_unlink, is just as > good except in the case where you have a malicious user killing the > process in between these two operations.
The Android people already have an shm API doesn't leave traces in the filesystem, and I at least conceptually agree that having an API that doesn't introduce posisble other access is a good idea. This is the same reason why the O_TMPFILE API was added in this releases.
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