On 02/05/10 06:49, Ashley Pittman wrote: > I think you should look into this a little deeper, it > certainly used to be the case on Linux that setting > IPC_RMID would also prevent any further processes from > attaching to the segment.
That certainly appears to be the case in the current master of the kernel, IPC_PRIVATE is set on the segment with the comment: /* Do not find it any more */ That flag means that ipcget() - used by sys_shmget() - take a different code path and now call ipcget_new() rather than ipcget_public(). cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel - Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computational Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.unimelb.edu.au/