bytevolc...@safe-mail.net wrote: > I see where you are coming from, but what I am getting at is, where in > the POSIX standard does it say that it needs to be anywhere in the file > system at all? If it is shared memory, then surely this doesn't require > backing up.
Oh. It doesn't have to be a file. It can be a file. (And you can't asusme it's not a file.)