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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 22:39:32 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: shmfs/tmpfs/vm-fs
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Christoph Rohland wrote:

> 
> It was possible in some 2.3 kernels, but this had to be removed with
> the cleanup :-(
> 


I guess I really still don't understand why.  I certainly can understand 
that it would be highly undesirable if it had to be supported before 
/dev/shm is mounted, but I don't see any reason to allow SysV shared 
memory before mounting /dev/shm.

	-hpa


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