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Date:      Sun, 06 Jul 2003 19:44:54 -0400
From:      "Myron J. Mayfield" <nugent511@comcast.net>
To:        Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /dev/shm
Message-ID:  <3F08B476.3090700@comcast.net>
References:  <3F08B199.3050409@comcast.net> <3F08B79B.2040805@gmx.net>

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Marcin Dalecki wrote:

> Myron J. Mayfield wrote:
>
>> I attempted to install the linux java sapgui on FreeBSD 5.0, but the jar
>> file only unpacked part of it.  I then copied the files from my Redhat 9
>> machine.  I linked up all the linux libraries needed and attempted to
>> start it.  It gives me an error saying cant find /dev/shm.  I tried
>> adding this to /dev but was unable to.  Does anyone have any
>> information?  Thank you.  I am somewhat new to FreeBSD but have used
>> linux for Many years.
>
>
> For some unexcused reason there is the trend in Linux to represent
> everything as kind of a wired half finished pseudo file system. /proc 
> pipe
> devicefs sysctl and so on... The list is really long. Even shared 
> memmory is
> mapped to  ehrm.... a filesystem. This is "expected" to be mounted at 
> /dev/shm by the system. You can't expect FreeBSD to follow this path...
>
>>
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Is there a way to emulate /dev/shm?




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