On Dec 18, Roger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org> wrote: > How strongly can I put this? /dev/shm is for *shared memory*, not for > random junk. /dev/shm is for POSIX shared memory and semaphores /dev/shm is a tmpfs which happens to be used by POSIX SHM. I have not seen yet a good reason why it should not be used by other users too. > created with sem_open() and shm_open(). We don't want random breakage > because people put files in there. /dev/shm is reserved. Actually people have been putting files there for a while, even in packages in a stable release. Can you point us to some examples of the random breakage you suggest has happened? > Where was it ever written down that any package could use /dev/shm? > They can't. Oops. They already do. -- ciao, Marco
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