Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven!adm!xadmx!SPETTRI%IFIIDG.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu From: SPETTRI%IFIIDG.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Mencaraglia Francesco) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: shared memory problems Message-ID: <19987@adm.BRL.MIL> Date: 13 Jun 89 13:31:58 GMT Sender: news@adm.BRL.MIL Lines: 12 While experimenting with shared memory segments I have made some terrible mistake; i have now two segments ( which I may see with the ipcs command ) with key 0x0000001 and 0x00cf75 ( yes , this is not a typo error ) and I cannot succeed in throwing them away; I tried without success with the ipcrm but the only thing I get is that the key becomes 0x000000 ( IPC_PRIV I suppose) the mode becomes D-rw-rw-rw- and the segment stay there ready to reappear at the next bootstrap. The only thing I noticed is that the segment is not present when I am in level 1 (init 1). Has anybody some helpful suggestion ? Please if possible e-mail as I am not a current subscriber to the list F. Mencaraglia