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* shmfs behaviour
@ 2001-01-12 10:10 J . A . Magallon
  2001-01-12 13:13 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: J . A . Magallon @ 2001-01-12 10:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Hi everyone.

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 ?
- 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...

TIA

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mailto:jamagallon@able.es                                          $> more beer

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* Re: shmfs behaviour
  2001-01-12 10:10 shmfs behaviour J . A . Magallon
@ 2001-01-12 13:13 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lars Marowsky-Bree @ 2001-01-12 13:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: J . A . Magallon; +Cc: linux-kernel

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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