Re: A translator for `/dev/shm'

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 07:35:34PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:

> Fixing tmpfs shouldn't be so bad.  Is anyone trying?

A while back, someone (I think Sergio Lopez) analized it, and concluded
that it's not easy to fix :-(

Anyways, IIRC the problem was only with actually reading/writing data.
As shm uses it only for rendezvous, it very well might suffice for this
specific use case...

> In the absence of tmpfs, what's wrong with a plain directory on the
> root filesystem?

Probably nothing. But it needs --no-inherit-dir-group to be set on the
root FS -- which was the whole point of the strange patch in the other
thread :-)

-antrik-