Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:21:15 +0100 | From | Karel Zak <> | Subject | Re: ipc: object information data in proc and sysfs |
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On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 04:12:50PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Where's the benefit in switching ipcs over to using /proc? > > procfs reads are probably slower than the syscalls?
32bit userspace and 64bit kernel (RHEL ppc64), it seems more reliable read from /proc than use the syscalls.
I guess that IPC_64 flag for shmctl() commands is used by libc in 64bit userspace only.
Karel
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