Re: [TCLUG:18854] Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed!

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

David Wood wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> 
> > you'll need to mount the shm filesystem.
> >
> > mount -t shm none /var/shm
> 
> wtf??

The 2.3/2.4 Linux kernel implements shared memory using a filesystem. 
I'm not exactly sure what the purpose of that is, but someone thought it
was a good idea...  It's much like procfs (the filesystem used in /proc)
or devfs (a new system that can be used for all of those files in the
/dev directory) in which the files being used don't actually exist on a
physical medium.

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