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Date:      Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:12:31 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: no SYSVSHM in GENERIC now..
Message-ID:  <19970715101231.JO07295@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970714232428.21877C-100000@Journey2.mat.net>; from Chuck Robey on Jul 14, 1997 23:26:46 -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970714200752.13284A-100000@roguetrader.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970714232428.21877C-100000@Journey2.mat.net>

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As Chuck Robey wrote:

> I think, Brandon, that you're wrong.  The gimp software uses SYSVSHM, not
> the port.

Sure.  But why not adding a small `patch' that catches SIGSYS, and
exits cleanly telling the user to include SYSVSHM into her kernel?
(That's the same way the XFree86 servers use to disable MIT-SHM.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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