On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 08:23:25PM -0700, Matthew Hall wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:32:12AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > >
> > Well, abnormal termination results in abnormal consequences. You expect
> > garbage to get left behind of a program crashes, so I wouldn't really worry
> > about that too much. If you really wanted to you can register chained
> > handlers
> > for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS/etc to catch those conditions, but honestly, that seems
> > like
> > overkill. If a program that uses shared resources terminates abnormally,
> > its
> > well understood that those shared resources may not get released properly,
> > and
> > manual intervention is required to clean them up
> >
> > Neil
>
> Perhaps true. But also one of the top irritations with POSIX SHMEM. ;)
>
POSIX shared memory defines IPC_RMID for exactly that purpose.
