Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1

J . A . Magallon
2001-02-02T20:53:20Z

On 02.02 Christoph Rohland wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>
> > What happened with this being a management tool for shared memory
> > segments?!
>
> Unfortunately we lost this ability in the 2.4.0-test series. SYSV shm
> now works only on an internal mounted instance and does not link the
> directory entry to the deleted state of the segment.
>

Mmmmmm, does this mean that mounting /dev/shm is no more needed ?
One step more towards easy 2.2 <-> 2.4 switching...

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