On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:45 PM, Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> wrote:

> The OpenBSD paragraph in the "Shared Memory and Semaphores” section seems
> to
> have been slightly incorrect since around 2002.  The kern.ipc.shm_use_phys
> sysctl setting has never existed in OpenBSD (it is in NetBSD and FreeBSD)
> and
> SEMMAP is not a kernel configuration option.  Further, there is no kernel
> config for locking shared memory into RAM so the whole paragraph is best
> removed it seems.  I believe this is an artifact from FreeBSD and OpenBSD
> sharing a paragraph, which was split into separate ones a long time ago.
>
> The attached patch removes the above mentioned parts (confirmed with an
> OpenBSD
> developer).  This should probably be backpatched to all supported versions
> as
> it’s been wrong for a long time.
>

Applied and backpatched. Thanks!


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