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Date:      Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:40:37 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>
Cc:        Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Shared memory - Was: 2 Queries
Message-ID:  <200003011940.OAA64347@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000301124613.A15018@netmonger.net>
References:  <20000229021327.E21720@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002290954410.917-100000@merlin.onsea.com> <20000229134143.B4903@netmonger.net> <20000301182028.C61034@plab.ku.dk> <20000301124613.A15018@netmonger.net>

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<<On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 12:46:13 -0500, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> said:

> 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.

Unfortunately, the System V shared-memory API is brain-damaged and
does not permit this.

-GAWollman

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