Re: Question: madvise(DONT_SYNC)

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 29 November 2005 10:51, Nix wrote:
> 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?

Yes. :)

> >                                     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.

Yup.  I agree that's a distro bug.  (Or possibly the one system I have access 
to is uniquely broken.)

Rob
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