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From: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] deleting a left over heap (shared memory segment)
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To: "Moser, Dan" <DMoser@domain.hid>
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Moser, Dan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if there was a command line method for deleting left
> over heaps (i.e., those that were not properly deleted with a call to
> rt_heap_delete()) from /proc/xenomai/registry/native/heaps.
> 
> Just a simple rm command (as root) yields the following:
> 
> # rm -f myshmem
> cannot remove `myshmem': Operation not permitted
> 

For the moment, there is way to remove lingering native API objects from 
the /proc interface. On the other hand, the RTDM API allows this for 
some of its objects by writing a magic value to the proper /proc entry, 
and we might use the same technique to provide this feature to the 
native one.

> Thanks in advance for any help/insight,
> Dan
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Philippe.