On August 16, 2018 11:57 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jeng...@inai.de> wrote: > On Thursday 2018-08-16 12:41, Emil Velikov wrote: > > > On 15 August 2018 at 15:14, Simon Ser cont...@emersion.fr wrote: > > > > > On Linux, try using memfd_create and file sealing. Fallback to > > > shm_open on old kernels. > > > On FreeBSD, use shm_open with SHM_ANON. > > > Otherwise, use shm_open with a random name, making sure the name > > > isn't already taken. > > > > Thinking out loud: > > I wonder if the next POSIX standard will finally standardise > > random/anonymous shm files. Be that shm_open+SHM_ANON [...] > > According to the shm_open.3 from Linux man-pages-4.16 project, > shm_open is already marked standardized: > > CONFORMING TO > POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
Yes, but this doesn't include SHM_ANON unfortunately. So we still need to generate a random name and make sure it hasn't been taken already. _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
