Re: [PATCH] shm fs v2 against 2.3.41

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 09:24:28 EST


Hi,

On Tue, 01 Feb 2000 19:07:20 +0900, GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>
said:

> I guess almost all users have no shmpath (default: /var/shm),
> and they maybe make a dir and have to mount it.
> IMHO, it is better to change that sysv shared memory works
> samely, whenever shmfs is not mounted. Is it feasible,
> or only my mistaken ?

Even tools as fundamental as "ps" don't work until /proc is mounted, so
I don't see anything wrong with requiring shmfs to be mounted for sysV
shared memory to work correctly.

--Stephen

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