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To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: no SYSVSHM in GENERIC now.. 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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As a matter of course, every FreeBSD system that I happen to use if it
doesnt have SYSVHM and friends I just compile it in.

	Cheers,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Warner Losh :
> In message <19970710092221.JN34121@uriah.heep.sax.de> J Wunsch writes:
> : MIT-SHM is an extension that must be explicitly used by the clients,
> : and AFAIK only few clients actually use it.
> 
> Yes.  That is true.  However, the ones that do use it are in the
> "cool" category: mpeg_play and friends.
> 
> So I have the option enabled on all the machines that I have that run
> X.  Don't know if that makes sense for the whole world or GENERIC, but
> it makes sense for me.
> 
> Warner