Re: /dev/shm

From: clubneon (clubneon@clubneon.com)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 14:29:29 EST


Correct shmfs isn't needed for SysV IPC, but is it needed for the POSIX
shared memory interface.

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Chris Meadors writes:
> > But I use devfs and I'm lazy. Can we get devfs to create a mount
> > point if we have POSIX shm configured or something?
>
> In theory, yes. But I thought that shmfs no longer needed to be
> mounted for SysV IPC to work (because it's already mounted with
> kern_mount())?

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