From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 10 15:54:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7983E10656BC for ; Sun, 10 May 2009 15:54:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu) Received: from hergotha.csail.mit.edu (hergotha.csail.mit.edu [66.92.79.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 254408FC20 for ; Sun, 10 May 2009 15:54:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu) Received: from hergotha.csail.mit.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hergotha.csail.mit.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n4AFsVVi054854; Sun, 10 May 2009 11:54:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by hergotha.csail.mit.edu (8.14.2/8.13.8/Submit) id n4AFsVM6054851; Sun, 10 May 2009 11:54:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18950.63671.323324.756287@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 11:54:31 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman To: Lothar Scholz In-Reply-To: <7710650619.20090510075706@scriptolutions.com> References: <200905100500.n4A50GOa050728@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <7710650619.20090510075706@scriptolutions.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 21) "Educational Television" XEmacs Lucid X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (hergotha.csail.mit.edu [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 10 May 2009 11:54:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=disabled version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on hergotha.csail.mit.edu Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Posix shared memory problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 15:54:39 -0000 < said: > First of all you can't use '/' if you want stay portable. The Standard says otherwise. > It is also just a maximum of 13 char long (says the FreeBSD 6.X man page) Not in the manual page I have, and the Standard says otherwise. > The path has nothing to do with the filesystem, it's a separate > namespace. Again, the Standard says otherwise (or rather, it says that this is an implementation option). To quote the 2001 edition of the standard (XSH6 page 1313): It is unspecified whether the name appears in the file system and is visible to other functions that take pathnames as arguments. The name argument conforms to the construction rules for a pathname. -GAWollman