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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