Re: ping22: can not kill this process
In article <[🔎] 20080104140650.0647ee4f@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> you wrote:
>> It is for example used to map shared memory. ...
>
> No, it is a tmpfs directory for temporary files. It has nothing to do
> with shared memory.
why do you think it is named shm? it is used for shm_open and shm_unlink.
(where glibc used temporary files to mmap them)
On some systems (like mine) tmp is a symlink to it, or you use a second
instance of tmpfs. However is still is used for share memory (only).
Gruss
Bernd
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