Shared Memory in BSD4.3 is lacking?

[Dave Decot]

> So what's missing, or otherwise brain-damaged?  Much of the problem
> with the interface is that your program has to find and hook up to
> shared memory somehow, and the shared memory has to be able to
> stick around when unused.  The magic cookie approach seems
> reasonable.

But the cookies should be doled out by the file system, not by a
replication and distortion of the file system semantics.

There still is no useful way to generate appropriate magic cookies
under the "shmid" approach; ftok() is a self-admitted botch.

There should be a way to cause private shared memory segments
to vanish upon termination of a process or process group.

Dave Decot
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