Re: 64-bit shm: abi problems

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:37:04 -0800


Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:29:23 -0800
From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>

Yes I see someone thought it would be a keen idea to
change shm_segsz to size_t from int. Why? I'm quite
happy with a 2G limit; you should have been using mmap
well before that anyway.

mmap() still doesn't support anonymous SHARED+WRITE, which is why
people want sysv/ipv SHM.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

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