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Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 09:37:03 -0700
From: Jaspal Kohli <jaspal@best.com>
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If a process creates a shared memory segment using shmget() and exits
without
deleting it via shmctl(), the segment does not get deleted.  Since this
is a limited
resource in the kernel, the system will run out of shm segments.

It was not clear to me from the man pages whether this is the expected
behavior
or whether this is a kernel bug (i.e. shm segments should be deleted
when the
creating process exits).

Any suggestions?

 thanks,
  - Jaspal


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