From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 1 9:46:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cheddar.netmonger.net (cheddar.netmonger.net [209.54.21.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E7EC37C335 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:46:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@cheddar.netmonger.net) Received: (from chris@localhost) by cheddar.netmonger.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15267; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 12:46:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20000301124613.A15018@netmonger.net> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 12:46:13 -0500 From: Christopher Masto To: Anton Berezin Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shared memory - Was: 2 Queries Mail-Followup-To: Anton Berezin , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000229021327.E21720@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000229134143.B4903@netmonger.net> <20000301182028.C61034@plab.ku.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <20000301182028.C61034@plab.ku.dk>; from Anton Berezin on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:20:28PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:20:28PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote: > I would say that the programs you've mentioned are badly written then. > > It takes no more than > > XSync(disp,False); > shmctl( shmid, IPC_RMID, 0); It takes no more than a well-designed operating system service to ensure that badly written programs don't fail to release resources when they crash. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message