From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 15 01:26:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA14824 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 01:26:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA14819 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 01:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA04117 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:25:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA06577; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:12:31 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970715101231.JO07295@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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.. References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Jul 14, 1997 23:26:46 -0400 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)