Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 2 Sep 2000 21:41:03 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: thread rant |
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On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > 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...
yep - and this isnt possible with traditional SysV shared memory, and isnt possible with traditional SysV semaphores. (forget my filesystem comment, it's a thinko.)
Ingo
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