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Re: ping22: can not kill this process

From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki(at)lina.inka.de>
Date: Fri Jan 04 2008 - 16:30:18 EST

In article <20080104140650.0647ee4f@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> you wrote:

>> It is for example used to map shared memory. ...

>
> No, it is a tmpfs directory for temporary files. It has nothing to do
> with shared memory.

why do you think it is named shm? it is used for shm_open and shm_unlink. (where glibc used temporary files to mmap them)

On some systems (like mine) tmp is a symlink to it, or you use a second instance of tmpfs. However is still is used for share memory (only).

Gruss
Bernd

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