Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 2 Sep 2000 21:36:05 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: thread rant |
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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.
Ingo
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