David Laight writes:

>SYSV shared memory is horrid stuff!
>Just mmap a file!

Indeed, it is just compatibility stuff.  I'm apalled that new software
is still using that deprecated (and ill-conceived) API.  Maybe it's
because Gnu/Linux can't do any other method (at least the last time
I looked.)  That shouldn't mean that on other systems (SVR4/44BSD)
that broken API should be used aswell.

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  Matthias Buelow;  mkb@{mukappabeta.de,informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de}