Ingo Molnar writes:
>
> On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > > what i mean is that i dont like the cleanup issues associated with SysV
> > > shared memory - eg. it can hang around even if all users have exited, so
> > > auto-cleanup of resources is not possible.
> >
> > unlink() and the last munmap()/exit() will get rid of it...
>
> yep - and this isnt possible with traditional SysV shared memory,
> and isnt possible with traditional SysV semaphores. (forget my
> filesystem comment, it's a thinko.)
Huh? After attaching, if you "delete" a SHMID, it will be removed when
all processes referring to it unattach or die. Fairly similar
semantics.
Regards,
Richard....
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Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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