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Date:      Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:10:49 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@kukulies.org>
Cc:        Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev <timon@memphis.mephi.ru>
Subject:   Re: gimp fails suddenly
Message-ID:  <20031212161049.7e081c37.Alexander@Leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <20031212143609.GA20325@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
References:  <200312070945.hB79jKds039814@www.kukulies.org> <1071238350.735.3.camel@timon.nist> <20031212143609.GA20325@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 15:36:09 +0100
"Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@kukulies.org> wrote:

> > sysctl -w kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1
> > 
> > I've put it into sysctl.conf, and run with it.
> 
> That's fine. Just tell me, what does this actually mean? Is it practically
> the same as running gimp --no-shm ?  Or is shm activated (like a module being
> not present and the getting loaded?).

AFAIK:

This allows to use already removed shm... if you know C, something like:
  free(my_string_buffer);
  printf("%d\n" my_string_buffer);

Bye,
Alexander.

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