On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 21:27, Gerrit Huizenga wrote:
 be fine with me - we are only planning on people using
> flags to shm*() or mmap(), not on the syscalls.  I thought Oracle
> was the one heavily dependent on the icky syscalls.

the icky syscalls are unusable for databases.. I'd be *really* surprised
if oracle could use them at all on x86....