Hi,
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 09:41:03PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > 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.)
Using the SysV APIs, you can do this for shared memory: do an
IPC_RMID and the segment will disappear on the last detach/exit. But
yes, you can't do the same for SysV semaphores.
--Stephen
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