> So a lot of effort, for something that should be simply implemented
> in linux.
So write a library that wraps it as you want it. Or just go and look on
freshmeat for a couple that exist.
> When my parallel program crashes (and that happens a lot as
> parallellism is hard to debug), then the 150 mb hashtable where i test
> with, remains allocated.
You can attach an shm object and then delete it. It goes away on the last
user death
> You hear me correct it becomes ROOT, although i don't even have a root
> password (better not give me, i might install NT).
>
> Now if i restart my program, then linux CRASHES. Shared memory
> can't be swapped. So if i allocate at a 256 mb machine 2 times 150mb,
> then it crashes directly. The first 150mb is the root 150mb.
Shared memory can be swapped. If linux is crashing then you've found a bug
whether it gets swapped or not.
Alan
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