On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:27:12AM -0500, Bill Stoddard wrote: > In the cases where we want/need a shared scoreboard, I would prefer for the parent to > derive a safe name and tell the child the name. I see no goodness in complicating the > config with a directive that does not provide a distinct benefit to the user. IMHO, >the > name of the shared segment (and the process for deriving the name) is best kept >under the > covers.
Deriving a filename for the scoreboard may be more difficult than it sounds -- we don't want the file to reside on an NFS partition. -aaron