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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:21:46 -0700
From: Tom Emerson <temerson@asu.edu>
Organization: Arizona State University
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Are the system V ipc and shm (shared memory) system calls 
working correctly?  I was trying to use the shmget() system 
call, and it core dumped -bad system call-.

I tried the same call on a Solaris box, and it worked OK there.

TIA
Tom Emerson
KAET Television
Arizona State University
(another die-hard BSD fan!)