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From: rick@ut-emx.UUCP (Rick Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Shared memory under Ultrix 3.0
Summary: fixed, dumb error
Message-ID: <13066@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 89 21:22:55 GMT
References: <13026@ut-emx.UUCP>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article <13026@ut-emx.UUCP>, rick@ut-emx.UUCP (Rick Watson) writes:
> The following program works under 2.2 but the fails under 3.0.
> The child process fails with EMFILE "Too many open files" when
> the shmat is executed.  The man page indicates that I've exceeded
> the "system imposed limit".  What am I doing wrong?  Does the system
> have to be configured to use shared memory?

Oops, sorry, dumb error.  The child didn't need to shmat the shared
memory as it already was mapped.

Rick Watson
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