Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Patch] shmmin behaviour back to 2.2 behaviour | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Date | 27 Dec 2000 18:54:03 +0100 |
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Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> On 27 Dec 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote: > > The following patchlet bring the handling of shmget with size zero > > back to the 2.2 behaviour. There seem to be programs out, which > > (erroneously) rely on this. > > Just curiosity: do you know if any specification (POSIX?) defines this > behaviour?
I don't think so. IMNSHO it is not legal to call shmget with size < SHMMIN. But there are programs which do that successfully on Linux 2.2. And I learnt not to break them without reason.
Greetings Christoph
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