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From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
To: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: shared memory
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And wouldn't you know, those are the two programs I use often.  Thanks for the
tip.

Patrick

 
On 17-Feb-98 stephen farrell wrote:
> Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> writes:
> 
>> That did it!  Thanks.  It was easier than I thought.  Now do you know any
>> way
>> to determine what process is leaving the shared memory in place and not
>> destroying it?
> 
> Well, staroffice for linux is one of them... I think it happens a lot
> under linux emulation (e.g., xquake).
> 
> btw--a little shell fun like:
> 
> for shmid in `ipcs | grep $USER | grep "^m" | awk '{print $2}'`; do
>       ipcrm -m $shmid
> done
> 
> might make this task a little easier. (note that "`" is not a "'") it
> might be clever (and it might also be dangerous!--there is no
> guarantee that you're NOT freeing some other program's shared memory)
> to wrap your linux programs like:
> 
>#!/bin/sh
> run_linux_program
> 
> for shmid in `ipcs | grep $USER | grep "^m" | awk '{print $2}'`; do
>       ipcrm -m $shmid
> done
># EOF
> 
> --
> 
> Steve Farrell

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