Re: shm fs mount

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:22:21 +0100 (BST)


On 9 Jun 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:

> Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com> writes:
> > didn't Peter Anvin say recently that the reason the internal mount
> > instance of shmfs is mounted on "/" is todo with POSIX IPC
> > requirements that any object should correspond to a "real pathname"?
>
> No, to use POSIX shm you have to mount it into the real tree.
>

Cool. How about procfs being currently mounted on "/" - can this also be
fixed to become "proc:"?

Regards,
Tigran

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