Yes. I once had to write a cron job in Perl that monitored for unused regions and deleted them before the SHM subsystem ran out of memory. Possible, yes, but irritating. -- Sent from my mobile device.
On October 30, 2014 3:18:56 AM PDT, Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> wrote: >On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 08:23:25PM -0700, Matthew Hall wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:32:12AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote: >> > > >> > Well, abnormal termination results in abnormal consequences. You >expect >> > garbage to get left behind of a program crashes, so I wouldn't >really worry >> > about that too much. If you really wanted to you can register >chained handlers >> > for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS/etc to catch those conditions, but honestly, >that seems like >> > overkill. If a program that uses shared resources terminates >abnormally, its >> > well understood that those shared resources may not get released >properly, and >> > manual intervention is required to clean them up >> > >> > Neil >> >> Perhaps true. But also one of the top irritations with POSIX SHMEM. >;) >> >POSIX shared memory defines IPC_RMID for exactly that purpose.
