Re: Use tmpfs for shm_open()?

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm+eric@npwt.net)
19 Jun 1998 10:06:55 -0500


>>>>> "RG" == Richard Gooch <Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU> writes:

RG> Hi, all. A random thought just popped into my head today: how about
RG> implementing a tmpfs which could then be used as the basis of a simple
RG> userspace (libc) implementation of POSIX shared memory, aka.
RG> shm_open().

RG> We could kill two birds with one stone, giving a tmpfs to those who
RG> believe it's faster than ext2fs :-), and giving us POSIX SHM too.

Plus resource limits could be quotas.
I called it shmfs because the emphasis is on being able to do shm_open..

Look at http://www.npwt.net/~ebiederm/files
and get
shmfs-0.1.009.tar.gz
and code me that user space implementation please.

I have a few things to work out with the mm system.

Eric

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