From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 11 11:10:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 160191065875 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 11:10:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kmsujit@gmail.com) Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 041378FC28 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 11:10:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kmsujit@gmail.com) Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id u3so270131tia.3 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 04:10:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ih/D0hBntj13muUSZWgkr4vw7Hxe6N5smuTB+l1/AWM=; b=sOEpT5aYErLWCnFnbKRhtahOcBtY/q1veEKeAjx8aNnkXzs07uy0Mik4PPBTW7Z084 fV7IzyY5gghazp1lywbT532WO+7ge7D63f65tWnUUyqlGwC5OhAQ8Ld89lItLZC6qUku SiUOLlsAp4jJxnrFkHdIR3tHDf2ScAyAGRBnw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cKvw+kjsF8rRdUxOwGv8Sk+62MzvCk6iD/y1OYDHGIUuQE0BIhRk0+GD6z+OIA7yC3 4hF6n3WWWdHl0tNc8hJIpgK3qpSLljgnG3P6uqrokTmeBOeiBD3+CUDxw2G307zBXnJf THWach54gbgQWdXGJnrgTSFaz0mW9ABhCcUIg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.110.3.15 with SMTP id 15mr462502tic.27.1242040228188; Mon, 11 May 2009 04:10:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1393224851.20090511112537@scriptolutions.com> References: <200905100500.n4A50GOa050728@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <7710650619.20090510075706@scriptolutions.com> <18950.63671.323324.756287@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <1393224851.20090511112537@scriptolutions.com> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 16:40:27 +0530 Message-ID: <74fe56020905110410y430bf76yacf5c5a308a99865@mail.gmail.com> From: Sujit K M To: Lothar Scholz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: Re[2]: Posix shared memory problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 11:11:00 -0000 Any sort of frustration here? > Some idiots started to think about this as a file path. But it isn't > and it shouldn't. Thats what this spec is saying in the typical commitee > polite form when some members made a mistake but are to important to > be blamed in public. > What ever the Idiots are saying is correct. Read up some decent Unix manual. > So this needs to be fixed. What needs to be fixed? Could you be more specific? > If i have to find a useable filefile location anyway the whole function does > not make any sense, then i can directly use mmap. The purpose is to > have a unique name (and in 2009 it is an URI not a file path). Thats > how serious non kiddy operating systems are doing like > Linux/Solaris/MacOSX-Darwin/HP-UX. Try using these giant, great, long lasting things. > > And i guess also the accounting functions are wrong then. shm_open > does not open a file so the (internal used) file should not add to the > file space quota but to the memory allocation quota. I think you need a check up. You seem to be contradicting what ever you said before.