On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 04:12:50PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Where's the benefit in switching ipcs over to using /proc? > > procfs reads are probably slower than the syscalls?
32bit userspace and 64bit kernel (RHEL ppc64), it seems more reliable read from /proc than use the syscalls. I guess that IPC_64 flag for shmctl() commands is used by libc in 64bit userspace only. Karel -- Karel Zak <k...@redhat.com> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/