Re: /dev/shm

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 16:32:29 EST

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By author: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
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>
> In theory, yes. But I thought that shmfs no longer needed to be
> mounted for SysV IPC to work (because it's already mounted with
> kern_mount())?
>

SysV IPC, correct. It's needed for the auxilliary support functions
of POSIX IPC. It should be mounted.

-hpa

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