Re: 2.3.51-52.pre1, shm and mounting somewhere else than /var/shm...

From: almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 16:17:51 EST

Next message: Luca Montecchiani: "[2.3.52-2] vfat problem"
Previous message: Jamie Lokier: "Re: Overcomittable memory (Was: Linux 2.2.15pre12)"
In reply to: Jeremy Katz: "Re: 2.3.51-52.pre1, shm and mounting somewhere else than /var/shm..."
Next in thread: H. Peter Anvin: "Re: 2.3.51-52.pre1, shm and mounting somewhere else than /var/shm..."
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> "To use System V shared memory, you have to mount the shm filesystem
> somewhere and put the mountpoint into /proc/sys/kernel/shmpath.
> Default is /var/shm."

Couldn't this be automated ? If there can be only one instance of
shm on a system, the path should be determined by wherever shm is
mounted, right ?

(Didn't look at the code - just strikes me as a possibly avoidable
redundancy.)

- Werner

-- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, ICA, EPFL, CH werner.almesberger@ica.epfl.ch / /_IN_N_032__Tel_+41_21_693_6621__Fax_+41_21_693_6610_____________________/

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Next message: Luca Montecchiani: "[2.3.52-2] vfat problem"
Previous message: Jamie Lokier: "Re: Overcomittable memory (Was: Linux 2.2.15pre12)"
In reply to: Jeremy Katz: "Re: 2.3.51-52.pre1, shm and mounting somewhere else than /var/shm..."
Next in thread: H. Peter Anvin: "Re: 2.3.51-52.pre1, shm and mounting somewhere else than /var/shm..."
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Mar 15 2000 - 21:00:26 EST