Re: shm fs mount

From: Ulrich Drepper (drepper@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 11:10:00 EST


Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com> writes:

> didn't Peter Anvin say recently that the reason the internal mount
> instance of shmfs is mounted on "/" is todo with POSIX IPC requirements
> that any object should correspond to a "real pathname"?

And I've explained that he was wrong and misunderstoof the purpose of
th shmfs. If this is the only reason please change it. As suggested,
make it look like the pipefs mount point. I could live with that.
But still would prefer it gets removed completely as soon as you mount
it at a correct place.

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