Re: ipc: object information data in proc and sysfs

[Karel Zak]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 04:12:50PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Where's the benefit in switching ipcs over to using /proc?
> 
> procfs reads are probably slower than the syscalls?

 32bit userspace and 64bit kernel (RHEL ppc64), it seems more reliable
 read from /proc than use the syscalls.

 I guess that IPC_64 flag for shmctl() commands is used by libc in 64bit
 userspace only.

    Karel

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