Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: thread rant | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Date | 03 Sep 2000 10:36:34 +0200 |
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Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca> writes:
> Ingo Molnar writes: > > 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.) > > Huh? After attaching, if you "delete" a SHMID, it will be removed > when all processes referring to it unattach or die. Fairly similar > semantics.
Would be nice if it really would be _that_ similar. We had to reintroduce some linuxism that you can still attach to an deleted SHMID. This is quite uncommon for filesystems (and for SYSV shm on other *NIX)
Christoph
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