Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1 | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Date | 04 Feb 2001 10:53:32 +0100 |
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"J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es> writes:
> There was a post recently (that now I can't find), that said the shm > management was done with an interal fs. Was that Posix or sysv shm ?
SYSV shm and shared anonymous mappings are using a kern_mount of shm/tmpfs. So the CONFIG_TMPFS does only make the directory/read/write-handling conditional. The rest is unconditionally compiled into the kernel.
Greetings Christoph
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