>-----Original Message----- >From: Joe Orton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>in the end using anonyous shm everywhere was easier than >fixing all the FIXMEs in the shm code where it should have had >real error handling, so I gave up with this stuff. > .. Interesting - we were working on this just last week. With name-based shm, the file needs to be created only because ftok needs it - once the shm is created, it's okay to delete the file. As regards the shm itself, if we do a IPC_RMID soon after the shmat(similar to anon-shm), the shm is marked for deletion soon after all the processes detach. -Madhu
