Re: what created /dev/shm?

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:35:03AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> Today, for the first time *ever* in my many years of running linux the
> 'df' command returned this line:
> 
> tmpfs                   193188         0    193188   0% /dev/shm
> 
> Where did this come from?

glibc (2.3.2.ds1-11) unstable; urgency=low

[...]

  * GOTO Masanori  <gotom@debian.org>

[...]

    - debian/local/etc_init.d/devpts.sh: rename to mountkernfs.
    - debian/local/etc_init.d/mountkernfs: rename from devpts.sh, for
      adding to mount tmpfs(shmfs), sysfs, and usbfs.

[...]

 -- Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>  Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:41:48 -0500

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]