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To: Tom Emerson <temerson@asu.edu>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: shmget() 
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Tom Emerson wrote in message ID
<3184FAAA.4EF5@asu.edu>:
> Are the system V ipc and shm (shared memory) system calls 
> working correctly?  I was trying to use the shmget() system 
> call, and it core dumped -bad system call-.

Did you compile support into your kernel? Its an option, not a
default... (see /sys/i386/conf/LINT)

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                            FreeBSD Core Team Member
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