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From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: shmfs behaviour
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:13:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010112141302.M441@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010112111039.A2160@werewolf.able.es>
In-Reply-To: <20010112111039.A2160@werewolf.able.es>; from "J . A . Magallon" on 2001-01-12T11:10:39

On 2001-01-12T11:10:39,
   "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es> said:

> A couple of questions about shm filesystem:
> - Time ago I remember you could see some dot files inside the /dev/shm
>   filesystem (then, even it was mounted in /var/shm...). No it shows nothing.
>   Is it the supposed behaviour ?

AFAIK yes.

> - By accident (switching between 2.2 and 2.4), i left the shm fs 'commented'
>   (with a fs type of 'ignore'). Kernel 2.4 looked working good. What is
>   /dev/shm for exactly ? Because it looks like I can live without it...

No. You will need it for POSIX shared memory.

Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-12 10:10 shmfs behaviour J . A . Magallon
2001-01-12 13:13 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]

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