From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question: madvise(DONT_SYNC)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:06:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511291406.18138.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y837s8hn.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix>
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 10:51, Nix wrote:
> On 28 Nov 2005, Rob Landley whispered secretively:
> > I can change the default to /dev/pts (which is tmpfs with the sticky bit
> > on Fedora Core 4, Ubuntu, and Gentoo.
>
> Um, you mean /dev/shm, right?
Yes. :)
> > But which has nothing mounted on it
> > and isn't even world writable on the only x86-64 system I currently have
> > access
>
> Well, shm_open() and friends just won't work on that system (the /dev/shm
> path is hardwired into glibc; I guess the PLD people might have hacked
> glibc to change that path, but that seems peculiar).
>
> Distro bug.
Yup. I agree that's a distro bug. (Or possibly the one system I have access
to is uniquely broken.)
Rob
--
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I do not think it means what you think it means.
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2005-11-28 1:25 Question: madvise(DONT_SYNC) Rob Landley
2005-11-29 16:51 ` Nix
2005-11-29 20:06 ` Rob Landley [this message]
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