Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 2 Sep 2000 15:28:53 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: thread rant |
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On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > Why? I would say that bad thing about SysV shared memory is that it's > > _not_ sufficiently filesystem-thing - a special API where 'create a > > file on ramfs and bloody mmap() it' would be sufficient. Why bother > > with special sets of syscalls? > > what i mean is that i dont like the cleanup issues associated with SysV > shared memory - eg. it can hang around even if all users have exited, so > auto-cleanup of resources is not possible.
unlink() and the last munmap()/exit() will get rid of it...
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