RG> Hi, all. A random thought just popped into my head today: how about
RG> implementing a tmpfs which could then be used as the basis of a simple
RG> userspace (libc) implementation of POSIX shared memory, aka.
RG> shm_open().
RG> We could kill two birds with one stone, giving a tmpfs to those who
RG> believe it's faster than ext2fs :-), and giving us POSIX SHM too.
Plus resource limits could be quotas.
I called it shmfs because the emphasis is on being able to do shm_open..
Look at http://www.npwt.net/~ebiederm/files
and get
shmfs-0.1.009.tar.gz
and code me that user space implementation please.
I have a few things to work out with the mm system.
Eric
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