On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:19:38PM -0800, John Reiser 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.) I think you're confusing two things here. POSIX shared memory objects are implemented on Linux using a tmpfs filesystem mounted at /dev/shm. I don't think there's a particularly good reason to use that filesystem for other uses. Just mount another tmpfs elsewhere. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
