Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:13:02 +0100 | From | Lars Marowsky-Bree <> | Subject | Re: shmfs behaviour |
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On 2001-01-12T11:10:39, "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es> said:
> A couple of questions about shm filesystem: > - Time ago I remember you could see some dot files inside the /dev/shm > filesystem (then, even it was mounted in /var/shm...). No it shows nothing. > Is it the supposed behaviour ?
AFAIK yes.
> - By accident (switching between 2.2 and 2.4), i left the shm fs 'commented' > (with a fs type of 'ignore'). Kernel 2.4 looked working good. What is > /dev/shm for exactly ? Because it looks like I can live without it...
No. You will need it for POSIX shared memory.
Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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