Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.3.51 -- I am still seeing the"shmget: shm filesystem not mounted" error | Date | Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:09:18 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Just as well. Some ancient X shm code I just looked at waits for a > confirmation event back from X before doing IPC_RMID, so I guess this > behaviour of not allowing shmat after IPC_RMID was already the case for > a certain "SunOS" some years ago. > > As it should be.
I'd disagree. The remove and attach technique is very very commonly used by other applications in order to ensure the segment is deleted if a program crashed - directly analogous to open/unlink/read.
Gimp wont be the only thing that breaks. So the old behaviour needs to work at least for SYS5 IPC, what posix ipc does is another matter
Alan
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