On Tuesday 29 November 2005 04:52, Nix wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Rob Landley prattled cheerily: > > If you're using udev, then /dev is tmpfs. So /dev/shm is trivially > > tmpfs. > > True enough; but some people mount /dev with a size of 0.
That stopped working in 2.6.14. Now size=0 specifies no size limit. (Yeah, I'm annoyed about it too. I complained.) Thread starts here: http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Nov/0387.html > (Admittedly if > they don't want to break POSIX shm they'd better damn well mount *another* > tmpfs on /dev/shm with a saner size limit...) In the patch I sent the error message was changed to say which directory it was upset about, but it should probably also hint that you can set TMPDIR to override this... Rob -- Steve Ballmer: Innovation! Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
