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RE: Two fixup routines in fork_child seem misplaced (Corinna, Robert)




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com] 
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 8:23 AM

> There is obviously no shm usage these days.  I didn't look 
> closely enough to see if the regions that are being mapped 
> are coming from the parent.  Maybe they're just coming from 
> the server, now that I think about it.  That would make more sense.

IIRC (I'm 75% through a PC rebuild) the shm doesn't need any data from
the parent. All it does it walk the local cache of shm entries, and
syncronise with the server for required handles. I will check in the
next day or two however.

Rob


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