Re: [TCLUG:18854] Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed!

[David Wood <jbevren@yahoo.com>]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Mike Hicks wrote:

> David Wood wrote:
> > > mount -t shm none /var/shm
> > 
> > wtf??
> 
> The 2.3/2.4 Linux kernel implements shared memory using a filesystem. 
> I'm not exactly sure what the purpose of that is, but someone thought it
> was a good idea...  It's much like procfs (the filesystem used in /proc)
> or devfs (a new system that can be used for all of those files in the
> /dev directory) in which the files being used don't actually exist on a
> physical medium.

aha! I see. :)

I didnt realize you were talking about 2.3/2.4 ;)

-David