Re: Will IPC changes be included in the mainstream kernel ?
Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 16:34:46 +0000 (GMT)
> > What happens to the 'u_short' fields when the amount of data
> > in IPC queue exceeds 'u_short' value range is that apparently
> > the real value is stored there modulo 'u_short' value range..
> > (e.g. 128k+10 bytes will appear to your old binaries as 10 bytes.
> > Not as - for example - USHORT_MAX value.)
> > Yeah, suboptimal, somewhat dangerous even.
>
> Please tell it to e.g. KDE developers... Or to the guys who do develop
> iBCS...
KDE works fine under the kernel with these changes. Unless you choose to
update the values from the default kernel settings that wrap cannot
even occur.
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