Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:40:08 -0800 | From | Jeremy Katz <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.51-52.pre1, shm and mounting somewhere else than /var/shm... |
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[ Monday, March 13 2000 ] had Petr Vandrovec saying:
> is there any reason why SHM must be mounted on /var/shm? If I have > mounted it in /shmfs, it does following (with xawtv): [snip strace, etc] > When I mounted it in /var/shm, it works. Could not shm code start > walking tree in shmfs root instead of in real root on path /var/shm? > Have I different SHM namespace if I mount shm in chrooted environment? > Unfortunately, I do not have address of author of shm changes, so > I'm asking here.
Allow me to quote from Documentation/Changes: "To use System V shared memory, you have to mount the shm filesystem somewhere and put the mountpoint into /proc/sys/kernel/shmpath. Default is /var/shm."
Also, use in chroot'd environments is being worked on -- see Alan's latest post on the subject.
Jeremy
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