From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Feb 23 01:20:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA00894 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 01:20:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA00866; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 01:20:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA16811; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 10:20:44 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA06849; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 10:09:21 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 10:09:21 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: mpp@freefall.freebsd.org (Mike Pritchard) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/2048 References: <199702230400.UAA14079@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199702230400.UAA14079@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Mike Pritchard on Feb 22, 1997 20:00:01 -0800 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mike Pritchard wrote: > > GENERIC kernel lacks SYSV IPC features (semaphore, shared memory, etc.) which is required by XFree86 S3 server. > > >How-To-Repeat: > > Run XFree86 X3 server with GENERIC kernel. > > >Fix: > > Add these lines to the sys/i386/isa/GENERIC configure file: > > > > options SYSVSHM > > options SYSVSEM > > options SYSVMSG > > So, should GENERIC contain the SYSV IPC stuff, or should I close this > PR? Keep GENERIC as it is, i'd say. The Xserver runs fine without these options (albeit with a complaint), and most people never need them at all. The Xserver only needs SYSVSHM if some application tries to use the MITSHM extension, and it needs SYSVSEM if somebody's going to run PEX. Both are not very general cases. If at all, leave SYSVMSG out. Almost nobody needs it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)