RE: shm fs mount

From: CRADOCK, Christopher (cradockc@oup.co.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 04:23:14 EST


[This list will probably ignore me]
Sorry to intrude but this also annoyingly happens to "procfs", "pipefs" and
"devfs" (and probably "ptyfs") too.
Is it a feature of non-device filing systems?

Chris.

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Andersen [SMTP:andersen@xmission.com]
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 9:33 AM
To: Ulrich Drepper
Cc: VGER kernel list
Subject: Re: shm fs mount

On Thu Jun 08, 2000 at 11:23:35PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> At least with 2.4.0-test1-ac11 I see two entries for the shm
> filesystem in /proc/mounts:
>
> none / shm rw 0 0
> none /dev/shm shm rw 0 0
>
> I have no idea where the first comes from, I certainly don't create
> it. This entry is causing trouble, though, since when searching for
> the shmfs mount point glibc looks through /proc/mounts and then finds
> the first entry.
>
> Could this entry be removed? If not, why not?

I asked this very thing the other day, and was ignored.
Do let me know if you get someone to notice/care, since
this breaks my code as well.

 -Erik

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