Re: Will IPC changes be included in the mainstream kernel ?

Serguei Koubouchine (ksi@gu.net)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:50:37 +0200 (EET)


On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > 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.

Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?

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