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Date:      Tue, 8 Jul 1997 10:39:49 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: no SYSVSHM in GENERIC now..
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970708103717.308U-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19970708091450.QL25215@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, J Wunsch wrote:

> Even SYSVSEM is arguable, i think the only `canned' application that
> uses them is PEX.  (Who uses PEX, anyway? :)

Wine seems to use them, and I think postgresql must because wine
allocates bunches of semaphores but doesn't release them, and
postgresql fails if wine has been run until you manually ipcrm
the semaphors that wine left hanging around....

Postgresql definately uses SYSVSHM.

-john




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