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To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1
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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com> writes:

> Do you need it for POSIX shm or not... if so, I would say you do need it
> (even if it's going to take some time until POSIX shm becomes widely
> used.)

Yes, you need it. glibc 2.2 will search for a shm fs on shm_open. And
without it fails. And the recommendation in the Configure.help is to
mount it.

But you do not need to mount it for any pre 2.4 functionality.

Greetings
                Christoph

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