System V IPC has no REMOVE_ON_EXIT bit
Bradley C. Spatz
bcs at beach.cis.ufl.edu
Mon Jun 12 17:26:50 AEST 1989
In article <1151 at altos86.UUCP> clp at altos86.Altos.COM (Chuck L. Peterson) writes:
>
>Am I missing something incredibly obvious, or does System V
>IPC lack a bit which indicates that the shared memory, semaphore, or
>message should be removed automatically when my process exits?
>This would be an ultra-cool feature if I could ever figure out how
>to do it.
I know there is a SEM_UNDO bit used with the semop call, and I'm pretty
sure there are similar bits for message queues and shared memory, even
though normal scheduling mechanisms might be sufficient for the latter.
Get a hold of a comprehensive reference for Sys V...
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