From: "Aaron Bannert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 12:09 PM
> I had thought that on platforms that supported it, we would prefer > the anonymous shared memory (as we were using before) to a name-based > solution, for whatever reason (performance and/or security perhaps). I > have no empirical evidence claiming either to be superior, I just wanted > to leave the underlying scoreboard mechanism as close as possible to > what it was before the recent shmem changes. > > How about this: > > - if the user specifies a ScoreboardFile then we use name-based memory > with that file, and failures are absolute. > - if none is specified, we get to chose -- right now i see this as > - platforms with fork try anonymous* then fall back to name-based > - other platforms do name-based > (for name-based we have to come up with a name like what we have now. > If it happens to be on an NFS partition, then it may fail, but we'll > have made notice of this in the docs and the config comments.) Actually, win32 will do anonymous in just a few minutes more, if no file backing name is given. Please proceed with a patch to correct, as you've described. Bill
