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Subject: Re: /dev/recycle
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From: Christoph Rohland <hans-christoph.rohland@sap.com>
Date: 24 Mar 2000 14:54:35 +0100
In-Reply-To: Jamie Lokier's message of "Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:10:01 +0100"
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Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Christoph Rohland wrote:
> > This would only work for /dev/zero like mappings. I need it for shm
> > mappings.
> 
> Open /dev/recycle several times and map it shared -- it's the same as
> anonymous shared mappings.  The owner of pages is considered to be the
> filehandle itself in that case.

It's not the same as posix shared mem.

Greetings
		Christoph
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