Re: [RFC] ipc: introduce shm_rmid_forced sysctl

[Vasiliy Kulikov]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 13:25 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Furthermore, if testing shows that this is not actually breaking 
> anything in a serious way we could also in theory simplify the patch 
> and just make this the default behavior with no runtime ability to 
> switch it off.

I'm afraid it's impossible.  From -ow readme:

"Of course, this breaks the way things are defined, so some applications
might stop working. In particular, expect most commercial databases to
break. Apache and PostgreSQL are known to work, though. :-)"

http://www.openwall.com/linux/README.shtml

But as it was written in days of Linux 2.4.x, the situation could have
changed.  A desktop system seems to work.


Thanks,

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Vasiliy Kulikov
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