Christoph Rohland wrote:
> The shm fs makes posix shm possible. The API for posix shm is much
> more fitting in the Unix way then SYSV IPC. It also is much more
> flexible.
>
> In short you have the following calls for posix shm:
> - shm_open gives you a file descriptor to a shm object
> - you can manipulate this file descriptor with ftruncate, fstat and
> mmap like any other file descriptor
> - shm_unlink removes the object
>
> shm_open and shm_unlink directly map to open/unlink in the shm fs.
Sounds exceedingly similar to the tmpfs idea (from Solaris) -- put /tmp
in swap. Can you use shmfs in that way? I.e., just mount it on /tmp?
-- Jamie
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