Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: shmat() & shmdt() questions. Message-ID: Date: 26 Sep 90 17:03:14 GMT References: <13782@hydra.gatech.EDU> <13783@hydra.gatech.EDU> <583@dptechno.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 7 In article <583@dptechno.UUCP> dave@dptechno.UUCP (Dave Lee) writes: > If everyone would use ftok(path,id) (see stdipc(3C)) as recomended in the FM, Minor flame: if the people who wrote the FM had thought about things a little earlier when they wrote the FS there would be a lot fewer FK like this. The shared memory objects should have been in the file system right from the start. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com