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Re: New shmfs and Debian



Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Shmfs is specified nowhere, and is specific to linux. It exposes some
> > internals in a way that a few programs may find useful, but that are no
> 
> Actually, QNX has had this for years. It is virtually necessary to
> implement the POSIX shm API. QNX however puts it under /dev/..

Interesting.

> There is talk on the kernel list that this file system might not even need
> to be mounted based on some new patches. I think we should hold off untill
> 2.4 is releases to see what it will really look like.

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