From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 28 20:26:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA17902 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 20:26:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@congo-106.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.227.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA17897 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 20:26:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA03916 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 20:27:07 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 20:27:06 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: SYSV Shared Memory stuff Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been playing around with KDE (www.kde.org), and noticed that the kmedia program (a la libmedia) has decided that it can't create a shm. I did some checking, and it appears to try to create a shm with a NULL address, so as to get a random address, however, this seems to not work with the FreeBSD implementations. Am I correct in assuming this is broken, or is it the program that's broken? - alex