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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!disgorge.news.demon.net!demon!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!btnet!btnet-feed3!unlisys!fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Question 1: SYSVxxxx Date: 31 May 1997 21:19:07 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Message-ID: <5mq4kb$d83@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <6XpYTJ8Zo$B@rimki.toppoint.de> <87iv00t4oz.fsf@layla.inka.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Lines: 19 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6036 Klaus Klein <kleink@layla.inka.de> wrote: > > ..., but what programs are that (examples please) ? > > The PostgreSQL RDBMS backend, as well as GIMP are popular examples. The MIT-SHM extension for Xservers does, too. Some image programs might benefit from it (maybe that's why you've got gimp in your list?). Non-existence of the SYSVSHM option in the kernel is caught by the XFree86 server at startup (by intercepting SIGSYS), and causes it to disable the extension. ISTR that Accelerated X requires the presence of the feature. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j