Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932165AbVK2QvX (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:51:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932168AbVK2QvW (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:51:22 -0500 Received: from 41-052.adsl.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.41.52]:9477 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932165AbVK2QvW (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:51:22 -0500 To: Rob Landley Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question: madvise(DONT_SYNC) References: <200511271925.09565.rob@landley.net> From: Nix X-Emacs: if SIGINT doesn't work, try a tranquilizer. Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:51:16 +0000 In-Reply-To: <200511271925.09565.rob@landley.net> (Rob Landley's message of "28 Nov 2005 01:35:57 -0000") Message-ID: <87y837s8hn.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Corporate Culture, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 947 Lines: 24 On 28 Nov 2005, Rob Landley whispered secretively: > I can change the default to /dev/pts (which is tmpfs with the sticky bit on > Fedora Core 4, Ubuntu, and Gentoo. Um, you mean /dev/shm, right? > But which has nothing mounted on it and > isn't even world writable on the only x86-64 system I currently have access Well, shm_open() and friends just won't work on that system (the /dev/shm path is hardwired into glibc; I guess the PLD people might have hacked glibc to change that path, but that seems peculiar). Distro bug. -- `Y'know, London's nice at this time of year. If you like your cities freezing cold and full of surly gits.' --- David Damerell - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/