Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 11:54:31 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> To: Lothar Scholz <scholz@scriptolutions.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Posix shared memory problem Message-ID: <18950.63671.323324.756287@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <7710650619.20090510075706@scriptolutions.com> References: <mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-arch/588815840.20090509203115@scriptolutions.com> <mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-arch/20090509200724.GA25714@stack.nl> <200905100500.n4A50GOa050728@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <7710650619.20090510075706@scriptolutions.com>
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<<On Sun, 10 May 2009 07:57:06 +0200, Lothar Scholz <scholz@scriptolutions.com> said: > First of all you can't use '/' if you want stay portable. The Standard says otherwise. > It is also just a maximum of 13 char long (says the FreeBSD 6.X man page) Not in the manual page I have, and the Standard says otherwise. > The path has nothing to do with the filesystem, it's a separate > namespace. Again, the Standard says otherwise (or rather, it says that this is an implementation option). To quote the 2001 edition of the standard (XSH6 page 1313): It is unspecified whether the name appears in the file system and is visible to other functions that take pathnames as arguments. The name argument conforms to the construction rules for a pathname. -GAWollman
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