Re: [Lse-tech] [rfc][api] Shared Memory Binding

[Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>]

Hi Matt,

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> I'd hoped to see how this proposal and pending patch went over with
> everyone, before attempting anything more broad.  My last attempt at
> something similar to this failed due to being too invasive and
> complicated.  My thoughts were to try something fairly
> straightforward and simple this time. 

But SYSV shm is a thin layer on top of tmpfs, which again is a thin
layer on top of the page cache. 

So if you want to have something simple, you should work on the
generic layer. For me a general mmbind() makes much more sense.

Greetings
		Christoph


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