shm_open in librt

[Ulrich Drepper]

Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> What is the rationale for shm_open/shm_unlink being in librt?  The
> _POSIX_SHARED_MEMORY_OBJECTS option is independent of any other option 
> or anything having to do with real-time.

The position of the POSIX committee is that all features added in .1b
belongs in librt.

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