Shared Memory in BSD4.3 is lacking?

Richard Tobin richard at aiva.ed.ac.uk
Thu Mar 3 09:25:31 AEST 1988


In article <14020007 at hpisod2.HP.COM> decot at hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) writes:
>There should be a way to cause private shared memory segments
>to vanish upon termination of a process or process group.

Is this not when happens when you do
   shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, 0);
?

I know it's not what the documentation says, but it's what it seems to do
(at least in Sun's implementation of system V shared memory).
-- 
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