From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:13:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:13:23 -0500 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:55818 "HELO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:13:04 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:13:02 +0100 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: "J . A . Magallon" Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: shmfs behaviour Message-ID: <20010112141302.M441@marowsky-bree.de> In-Reply-To: <20010112111039.A2160@werewolf.able.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.3i In-Reply-To: <20010112111039.A2160@werewolf.able.es>; from "J . A . Magallon" on 2001-01-12T11:10:39 X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2001-01-12T11:10:39, "J . A . Magallon" 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 -- Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated. -- J. Yahl - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/