On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:39:29AM +0000, Niall O Broin mentioned:
> > > Shared semaphores are not meant to be cleaned up after a process
> > > ends. You use ipcrm to get rid of them
> > Smeg. So, when this happens, the solution is "reboot" then ?
> RTFP John - "You use ipcrm to get rid of them" - or use the option Colm
> mentioned so that they get reclaimed when a process dies. By their
> nature, ipc semaphores and memory segments can't be assumed to be
> redundant when the process which created them dies.
Not much good if you have no idea what processes own which semaphores
though, which is the case here.
Actually, if ipcs -p shows no process ids - could I take it that they are
*all* unused ?
John
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