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Date:      Tue, 04 Jan 2000 23:10:49 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        "Vladimir A. Jakovenko" <vovik@lucky.net>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: staroffice doesn't work with a 3.4-SMP kernel 
Message-ID:  <20000104151049.9BF681CCE@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Vladimir A. Jakovenko" <vovik@lucky.net>  of "03 Jan 2000 23:29:17 GMT." <84rbcd$79r$1@news.lucky.net> 

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"Vladimir A. Jakovenko" wrote:
> Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> wrote:
> > If you want to use StarOffice (or wine) on an SMP system, you'll need
> > to upgrade to -current.  There was some fix to the memory system
> > around the time 3.1 came out that disabled forking with shared memory
> > on an SMP system.  This was eventually fixed in -current, but never
> > retrofitted to -stable.
> 
> Does "forking with shared memory on an SMP system" also mean problems
> with using SYSVSHM between related processes on an SMP system?

No, it means the process tried to use rfork() with an entirely shared
process address space.  This is not supported under SMP in 3.x and isn't
particularly likely to be with 4.x around the corner.

Cheers,
-Peter



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