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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 11:58:24 +0000 (GMT)
From: Dave Gilbert <gilbertd@treblig.org>
To: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
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Subject: Re: [Patch] shmmin behaviour back to 2.2 behaviour
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On 27 Dec 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:

> Hi Linus,
> 
> The following patchlet bring the handling of shmget with size zero
> back to the 2.2 behaviour. There seem to be programs out, which
> (erroneously) rely on this.

Hi Christoph,
  I think I've come to the conclusion that Xine does not in the case I've
found, rely on this - it is a separate bug related to Xv telling xine that
it needs 0 bytes.

Dave

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