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From: smcarey@rodan.syr.edu (Shawn M Carey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD & shared mem... when?
Date: 29 Sep 1994 13:32:58 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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In article <Cwuouz.CG0@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com> lando@butch.lmsc (James G. Landowski) writes:
>    I'm using version 1.1 of FreeBSD and found that shared memory
> access using shmget,shmctl,... is included but not implemented,
> is it part of 2.0 or is is still TBD. Thanks for the info.
>

Hmm.  I thought these were implented in 1.1?  Do you have these
options in your kernel config file?  They're needed for shmem
to work in 1.1.5, anyways...

options		SYSVSHM
options		SYSVSEM
options		SYSVMSG
options		"SHMMAXPGS=64"		# 256k (64 pages) shared RAM


>   - Jim L.
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-Shawn Carey