On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:39:54PM +0100, Paul Jakma mentioned:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Liam Bedford wrote:
>>> > Good god... Is there anything that's not a filesystem anymore...
> > Solaris now has /etc/mnttab as a filesystem... What happened
> > to the mantra of everything and anything is a file, and can be
> > accessed as such :)
>> that's the whole reason for making shm a filesystem. So that you can
> have filesystem open/stat/write/etc semantics on shm objects.
>> SysV IPC was very un-Unixy.
Why are they all hidden files ? And all 32k ?
Kate
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