From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 31 02:43:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA28903 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 31 May 1998 02:43:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA28895 for ; Sun, 31 May 1998 02:43:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA20634; Sun, 31 May 1998 02:42:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199805310942.CAA20634@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Terry Lambert cc: mike@smith.net.au, rminnich@Sarnoff.COM, doconnor@gsoft.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Star Office Installation In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 31 May 1998 09:38:49 -0000." <199805310938.CAA19927@usr04.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 02:42:44 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, I guess on Linux star office misbehaves by deleting its ipc shared data segments when it exits. Most likely whats going is that we are not handling properly the ipc calls or possibly something else which is causing Star Office not to delete the ipc shared data segments upon exit. Cheers, Amancio > > My next question is , > > why so many postings about Star Office without a single soul venturing > > into the linux layer to solve at least the ipc shared memory segments > > clean up? > > > > Well, lets chat about it some more 8) > > By definition, shared memory segments are persistant. > > It would be an error to delete them when the last reference is deleted. > > This is arguably a design flaw, but being a design flag, there's really > nothing you can do about it. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message