Re: Question: madvise(DONT_SYNC)

[Nix]

On 28 Nov 2005, Rob Landley whispered secretively:
> I can change the default to /dev/pts (which is tmpfs with the sticky bit on 
> Fedora Core 4, Ubuntu, and Gentoo.

Um, you mean /dev/shm, right?

>                                     But which has nothing mounted on it and 
> isn't even world writable on the only x86-64 system I currently have access 

Well, shm_open() and friends just won't work on that system (the /dev/shm path
is hardwired into glibc; I guess the PLD people might have hacked glibc to
change that path, but that seems peculiar).

Distro bug.

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