shmat for Linux/x86_64

Fri Jul 12 04:59:00 GMT 2002

Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:

|> shmat() takes 3 arguments on all Linux platforms, right, not 4 ? This looks
|> like a typo to me.

Yes, this is right.  There was some misconception about the right shmat
interface in the kernel, and in the end the kernel was changed to match
the user space API as it is forwared by glibc, and that is already used by
the other architectures that don't use the ipc dispatcher.

Andreas.

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