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Date:      Mon, 11 May 2009 16:40:27 +0530
From:      Sujit K M <kmsujit@gmail.com>
To:        Lothar Scholz <scholz@scriptolutions.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: Posix shared memory problem
Message-ID:  <74fe56020905110410y430bf76yacf5c5a308a99865@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1393224851.20090511112537@scriptolutions.com>
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Any sort of frustration here?

> Some idiots started to think about this as a file path. But it isn't
> and it shouldn't. Thats what this spec is saying in the typical commitee
> polite form when some members made a mistake but are to important to
> be blamed in public.
>

What ever the Idiots are saying is correct. Read up some decent Unix manual.

> So this needs to be fixed.

What needs to be fixed? Could you be more specific?


> If i have to find a useable filefile location anyway the whole function does
> not make any sense, then i can directly use mmap. The purpose is to
> have a unique name (and in 2009 it is an URI not a file path). Thats
> how serious non kiddy operating systems are doing like
> Linux/Solaris/MacOSX-Darwin/HP-UX.

Try using these giant, great, long lasting things.
>
> And i guess also the accounting functions are wrong then. shm_open
> does not open a file so the (internal used) file should not add to the
> file space quota but to the memory allocation quota.

I think you need a check up. You seem to be contradicting what ever you said
before.



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