Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:55:56 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1 |
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"J . A . Magallon" wrote: > > On 02.02 Christoph Rohland wrote: > > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes: > > > > > What happened with this being a management tool for shared memory > > > segments?! > > > > Unfortunately we lost this ability in the 2.4.0-test series. SYSV shm > > now works only on an internal mounted instance and does not link the > > directory entry to the deleted state of the segment. > > > > Mmmmmm, does this mean that mounting /dev/shm is no more needed ? > One step more towards easy 2.2 <-> 2.4 switching... >
In some ways it's kind of sad. I found the /dev/shm interface to be rather appealing :)
-hpa
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