Re: /dev/shm

From: Thomas Dickey (dickey_at_herndon4.his.com)
Date: 07/07/03

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To: Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net>

    On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:58:19AM +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
    > Myron J. Mayfield wrote:
    > >I attempted to install the linux java sapgui on FreeBSD 5.0, but the jar
    > >file only unpacked part of it. I then copied the files from my Redhat 9
    > >machine. I linked up all the linux libraries needed and attempted to
    > >start it. It gives me an error saying cant find /dev/shm. I tried
    > >adding this to /dev but was unable to. Does anyone have any
    > >information? Thank you. I am somewhat new to FreeBSD but have used
    > >linux for Many years.
    >
    > For some unexcused reason there is the trend in Linux to represent
    > everything as kind of a wired half finished pseudo file system. /proc pipe
    > devicefs sysctl and so on... The list is really long. Even shared memmory is
    > mapped to ehrm.... a filesystem. This is "expected" to be mounted at
    > /dev/shm by the system. You can't expect FreeBSD to follow this path...

    Linux isn't the only system that does this (learn a little, criticize less). 

    -- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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