>Simple answer #1: doom, many apps using Gtk + shared memory pixmaps. Basically
>it broke an established standardised API that we share with SYS5.4, *BSD and
>almost everyone else.
I don't believe it. Solaris, Tru64 and BSD all disallow attaches after
IPC_RMID. (I just tested them, in fact.) The *segment* is still alive until
nattch==0, of course, but nobody can attach to it.
Apps full of linuxisms are a pain to port.
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