Subject: Re: Expected behavior from shmget()?
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 02/18/1996 08:43:59
>>> Notice that in the following piece of code shmget() returns a value
>>> incremented by (64 *1024) on each invocation. Is this expected?
>> Is there some reason to think it's wrong?
> Because the return value from shmget() seems to be very different
> from other OS'.
So what? Isn't a shmid an opaque cookie anyway? Then why are you
concerned over NetBSD using a different way of generating those cookies
than FooOS for some foo?
der Mouse
mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu