From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] shmmin behaviour back to 2.2 behaviour
Date: 27 Dec 2000 18:54:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ito5agyc.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012271316020.11471-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012271316020.11471-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> On 27 Dec 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> > The following patchlet bring the handling of shmget with size zero
> > back to the 2.2 behaviour. There seem to be programs out, which
> > (erroneously) rely on this.
>
> Just curiosity: do you know if any specification (POSIX?) defines this
> behaviour?
I don't think so. IMNSHO it is not legal to call shmget with size <
SHMMIN. But there are programs which do that successfully on Linux
2.2. And I learnt not to break them without reason.
Greetings
Christoph
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-27 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-27 10:32 [Patch] shmmin behaviour back to 2.2 behaviour Christoph Rohland
2000-12-27 11:58 ` Dave Gilbert
2000-12-27 15:37 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-12-27 15:16 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-27 17:54 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2000-12-27 20:57 ` Andries Brouwer
2000-12-28 12:01 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-12-28 13:34 ` Andries Brouwer
2000-12-28 15:49 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-28 22:13 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-12-28 22:19 ` Alan Cox
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