Re: shm fs mount
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Fri, 09 Jun 2000 12:18:58 -0700
Ulrich Drepper 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"?
>
> And I've explained that he was wrong and misunderstoof the purpose of
> th shmfs. If this is the only reason please change it. As suggested,
> make it look like the pipefs mount point. I could live with that.
> But still would prefer it gets removed completely as soon as you mount
> it at a correct place.
>
It would be better if this wart could be undone. It's an attempt to fix
people not reading instructions and still using experimental kernels. I
don't think that that is a problem we need to solve by hacks on this
magnitude.
-hpa
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