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From: Jordan Hubbard <jordan.hubbard@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: General purpose library for name/value pairs.
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 16:14:52 -0700
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Yes, for anonymous shms this is certainly true.  Hey, if the application pro=
grammer *wants* to just pass a fd reference then there's certainly nothing p=
reventing them from doing so in either case, I'm just suggesting that having=
 an explicit OOB type for shared memory (named or otherwise) can be a good t=
hing too.

- Jordan=20

Sent from my iPad

On Jul 9, 2013, at 7:39, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> I'll only speak to the GC point.  For anonymous shm's (SHM_ANON), the segm=
ent
> is in fact GC'd on last close as there is no name to hold a reference to i=
t.