On Tue, 14.12.10 22:19, John Reiser (jreiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Also, the claim "The API for /dev/shm is shm_open()" is incorrect. > See the other message for the history. When something is in the file > system, then by default the file system APIs (including creat, open, > read, write, close, execve, dlopen, ...) are legitimate uses. > (Originally [System V] shared memory was *not* in the file system, > and this caused problems.) Don't conflate SysV and POSIX shared memory. They are completely orthogonal. SysV shared memory does not appear in /dev/shm. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel