Re: Implementation of POSIX shared memory objects

[yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi)]

> ad%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:13:17AM +0000, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
> > 
> > > Any reads/writes? Apart from greater file-system overhead (as opposed to
> > > aobj), I think it can involve disks. :)
> > 
> > tmpfs == swap backed uao
> 
> Right, but this is dependency on tmpfs, which one might not necessary want
> to have. I think it is not that friendly for embedded devices too.

while it can be, it doesn't need to be tmpfs.  ie. same as /tmp.

YAMAMOTO Takashi

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