On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:23:39AM -0500, Bill Stoddard wrote: > The issue is not whether we need a "file" backing the scoreboard. On Unix, you make >the > scoreboard use a file when the OS does not support shared memory.
I think Aaron pointed out in a recent exchange with a FreeBSD user that we don't support any OS without shared memory (FreeBSD disables shmem in a jail). IIRC, file-backed scoreboards are no longer supported in 2.0 (i.e. no use of shmem at all). Some OSes require a path to "setup" the scoreboard via shmem. FWIW, this seems identical to your issue in Win32. (I could be wrong, but that is my interpretation.) -- justin
