Re: [PATCH] replace SYSV shared memory with shm filesystem

[Jim Nance]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 01:17:04PM +0100, Christoph Rohland wrote:

> This patch implements a minimal filesystem for shared memory. It
> replaces/reuses the existing SYSV shm code so you now have to mount
> the fs to be able to use SYSV SHM. But in turn we now have everything
> in place to implement posix shm.

Is this patch related to the POSIX SHM patch that was floating around
a couple of weeks ago, or is this something different.  If I remember
correctly, that patch implemented POSIX SHM, and people wanted a special
file system like this to make it work more cleanly.

Jim