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On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Tom Emerson wrote:

> 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-.
> 
> I tried the same call on a Solaris box, and it worked OK there.

Did you compile the kernel with 

options SYSVSHM

?

(If this is so, then I have no idea.)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major