On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
> Alexander Viro writes:
> > On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, David Howells wrote:
>
> >>>> 1. Why is /var/shm such a bad place?
> >> ...
> >>> It really doesn't. It belongs in /dev more than anything, just like
> >>> /dev/pts and friends.
> >>
> >> Why not mount it under /proc somewhere? Maybe /proc/shm.
> >
> > What does it have with processes? Let's stop shitting into /proc - we'ld
> > better start moving things out of there...
>
> Shitting into /dev is somehow better? Unlike /dev/pts, the shm
> filesystem is not full of devices. Let's keep /dev for devices.
> One doesn't fix /proc by moving the problems into /dev.
I'd go for either /tmp/shm (shared memory is, after all, temporary), or
perhaps /mnt/shm.
James.
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