Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> writes: > Hi Keith, > > looking at libxshmfence_1.1-2, it's debian/rules use > --with-shared-memory-dir=/tmp so I don't see how the package is broken, > am I looking at the wrong package? > Can you elaborate?
I had built it locally on my machine under sysvinit (before there was a
package) and it selected /run/shm.
> The configure.ac auto-detection logic should be updated and use
> /dev/shm. Only this directory is pretty much guaranteed to exist
> cross-disto. Will file a bug against libxshmfence later.
The auto-detection logic looks for /run/shm /var/tmp and /tmp in order,
as I asked RedHat and SuSE developers for what they wanted. No-one asked
for /dev/shm, and when I looked through the debian documentation, I
found /run/shm as the 'preferred' location for tmpfs to be mounted.
I consider any change like this across a sysvinit->systemd transition
to be a bug in systemd at this point; my system was working, and a
transition to systemd caused it to stop working.
I'd love it if glibc offered an API to create an anonymous unnamed file
in shmfs. Right now, I'm using:
#define SHMDIR "/run/shm"
fd = open(SHMDIR, O_TMPFILE|O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC|O_EXCL, 0666);
I can't see how any application could responsibly use shm_open as that
API appears to present all of the usual /tmp races which we've worked
hard to eliminate. glibc doesn't appear to provide any other API for
creating a temporary anonymous memory file.
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