Re: Semaphore and Shared memory questions...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
20 Nov 2002 22:16:34 +0000


On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 21:42, Richard Whittaker wrote:
> At 10:04 PM 11/20/2002 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> >The sysctl interface and sysctl setting tools on boot exist precisely so
> >you dont have to hack these things around
>
> Allright... This is fine by me... One of my questions was (and still is),
> what do I pass to sysctl for setting /proc/sys/kernel/sem?...
>
> Setting shmmax was easy, since it's only a single hex value, but sem is
> puzzling me... Is a space separated list of values going to work?...

Right first guess. Its mostly historical that it isnt 4 values.

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