++1! Please commit ASAP. Ryan
On Monday 13 August 2001 10:35, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 09:00:37AM -0700, Ryan Bloom wrote: > > Unix shared memory is all anonymous, it must be created by the parent, > > and inherited by the child. Again, when somebody has the time/energy to > > fix Unix shared memory, this will change. > > FWIW, I have an implementation in my tree that doesn't use MM. The > only problem is that you can't "free" the individual memory segments > you retrieve from the alloc call. You can only free the entire > segment (the free call is essentially a no-op). If this is worth > having, I can post/commit the patch. It should be equivalent in all > other aspects to MM. (Based off the MM code, but I ripped out > everything we didn't need and I cleaned up the code...) > > I don't believe we need to be able to free each block returned from the > shmem segment, so I don't think this is a big deal though. Thoughts? > > I don't think we need to have memory management in shmem... -- justin -- ______________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Covalent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------
