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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Allan Duncan <allan.d@bigpond.com>
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Subject: Re: Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo
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Hi Allan,

On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Allan Duncan wrote:
> OK, it's fine by me if the "shared" under 2.2.x is not the same,
> however in that case the field should not appear at all in meminfo,
> rather than the current zero value, which leads lesser kernel
> hackers like me up the garden path.

This would probably break a lot of user space apps.

Greetings
		Christoph