From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question: madvise(DONT_SYNC)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:51:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y837s8hn.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511271925.09565.rob@landley.net> (Rob Landley's message of "28 Nov 2005 01:35:57 -0000")
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?
> 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.
--
`Y'know, London's nice at this time of year. If you like your cities
freezing cold and full of surly gits.' --- David Damerell
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2005-11-28 1:25 Question: madvise(DONT_SYNC) Rob Landley
2005-11-29 16:51 ` Nix [this message]
2005-11-29 20:06 ` Rob Landley
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