Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 02:42:44 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: mike@smith.net.au, rminnich@Sarnoff.COM, doconnor@gsoft.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Star Office Installation Message-ID: <199805310942.CAA20634@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 May 1998 09:38:49 -0000." <199805310938.CAA19927@usr04.primenet.com>
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Well, I guess on Linux star office misbehaves by deleting its ipc shared data segments when it exits. Most likely whats going is that we are not handling properly the ipc calls or possibly something else which is causing Star Office not to delete the ipc shared data segments upon exit. Cheers, Amancio > > My next question is , > > why so many postings about Star Office without a single soul venturing > > into the linux layer to solve at least the ipc shared memory segments > > clean up? > > > > Well, lets chat about it some more 8) > > By definition, shared memory segments are persistant. > > It would be an error to delete them when the last reference is deleted. > > This is arguably a design flaw, but being a design flag, there's really > nothing you can do about it. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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