Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932504AbWCADCm (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:02:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932505AbWCADCm (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:02:42 -0500 Received: from ms-smtp-04-smtplb.tampabay.rr.com ([65.32.5.134]:42420 "EHLO ms-smtp-04.tampabay.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932504AbWCADCm (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:02:42 -0500 Message-ID: <44050EC0.8070602@cfl.rr.com> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:02:24 -0500 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kamran Karimi CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: why VM_SHM has been removed from mm.h? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 639 Lines: 19 Is there a reason that you posted this as a reply to the "o_sync in vfat" thread? Kamran Karimi wrote: > Hello all, > > VM_SHM is used by DIPC to quickly recognise when we are dealing with a > System V IPC segment. It has been "removed" from recent kernels (set to > 0). Is there an easy way to find out if a segment is a Sys V shm? if > not, I suggest we re-activate it. > > -Kamran > - 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/