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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:16:35 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> said:

>    Garrett, I fail to see what you are argument is here.  Are you arguing
>    for the addition of a system call or against?  shm_open() is irrelevant
>    to the discussion

No, it is not irrelevant.  It is an existing, standardized interface
that will support precisely the behavior that people seem to be asking
for.  There is no need to invent another, proprietary interface; we
have too many of those already.

>, it is a libc function which has no capability whatsoever

Bullshit.  Go back and read what I wrote.

-GAWollman


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