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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
Cc: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1
Date: 04 Feb 2001 10:18:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hf2bo5rs.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010123205315.A4662@werewolf.able.es> <m3lmrqrspv.fsf@linux.local> <95csna$vb6$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <m3puh1que4.fsf@linux.local> <20010202215254.C2498@werewolf.able.es> <3A7B1EDC.DA2588BA@transmeta.com> <m3d7d0pwnr.fsf@linux.local> <3A7C69AB.9C7603A8@transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A7C69AB.9C7603A8@transmeta.com>

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com> writes:

> Do you need it for POSIX shm or not... if so, I would say you do need it
> (even if it's going to take some time until POSIX shm becomes widely
> used.)

Yes, you need it. glibc 2.2 will search for a shm fs on shm_open. And
without it fails. And the recommendation in the Configure.help is to
mount it.

But you do not need to mount it for any pre 2.4 functionality.

Greetings
                Christoph

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-02-04  9:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-23 19:53 swapfs for 2.4.1-pre J . A . Magallon
2001-02-01 21:39 ` [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1 Christoph Rohland
2001-02-01 23:50   ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-02  9:57     ` Christoph Rohland
2001-02-02 20:52       ` J . A . Magallon
2001-02-02 20:55         ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-03  0:06           ` J . A . Magallon
2001-02-03 15:02             ` Christoph Rohland
2001-02-03 14:28           ` Christoph Rohland
2001-02-03 20:27             ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-03 20:46               ` J . A . Magallon
2001-02-04  9:53                 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-02-04  9:18               ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
     [not found]   ` <20010203234550.A507@squish>
     [not found]     ` <m3zog2n6ec.fsf@linux.local>
     [not found]       ` <20010205210540.A10316@squish>
2001-02-06  9:18         ` VM question (ramfs abuse) Christoph Rohland

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