Nevermind that, I figured it out.
Files are not the same as shm areas, at least not on linux, at least not
with shmget. The file being there doesn't mean that there is an shm and
vice versa. The way of naming them just happens to be similar.
Sorry about that,
Dirk
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Dirk Groeneveld wrote:
Hi!
I think I found a bug in shmem/unix/shm.c around line 317.
In line 302, the file is created with the flags APR_CREATE | APR_EXCL (among
others), and in line 316 shmget is called with IPC_CREAT | IPC_EXCL, which
fails because the first call already created the file. It seems to work
without IPC_CREAT, but I am no expert on shmget and am not sure if this is
the way to fix it.
The attached patch takes out both the IPC_CREAT and IPC_EXCL flags. I wasn't
sure whether to keep IPC_CREAT. It might make a difference if someone else is
messing with the file at the same time, so I decided to prefer failing due to
a missing file over continuing with potentially undefined results.
Dirk
