Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1

Christoph Rohland
2001-02-04T09:49:00Z

"J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es> writes:

> There was a post recently (that now I can't find), that said the shm
> management was done with an interal fs. Was that Posix or sysv shm ?

SYSV shm and shared anonymous mappings are using a kern_mount of
shm/tmpfs. So the CONFIG_TMPFS does only make the
directory/read/write-handling conditional. The rest is unconditionally
compiled into the kernel.

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