Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:20:39 +1000 (EST) From: callum.gibson@db.com To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipcrm/shmctl failure Message-ID: <20020409062039.17055.qmail@merton.aus.deuba.com> In-Reply-To: <3CB276CB.89703872@mindspring.com> from "tlambert2@mindspring.com" at Apr 08, 2002 10:06:19 PM
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I replied privately to Terry, but I perhaps should have mentioned also that some of these segments were days old and they were definitely not in use by any process. I logout at the end of every day. tlambert2@mindspring.com writes: }All you are doing is marking the segment as removed. The segment }remains attached by the processes which have it open, and those }references don't go awaya until the processes in question detach }the segments, and the reference count goes to zero. } }In other words, shared memory segments are like files; you can't }delete them out from under programs that still hold references }to them. [ snip ] Callum Gibson callum.gibson@db.com Global Markets IT, Deutsche Bank, Australia 61 2 9258 1620 ### The opinions in this message are mine and not Deutsche's ### To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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