Posix shared memory problem

[Garrett Wollman]

In <mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-arch/19461540.20090510064924 at scriptolutions.com>
scholz at scriptolutions.com writes:

>JT> shm_open/shm_unlink refer to the filesystem; they are fairly direct
>JT> wrappers around open and unlink.
>
>Question is where are they stored?

In the fileststem, in the path that you specify.  They are just
ordinary files.

There was some thought that this was a bad (or at least
not-like-Linux) way of implementing this feature, so I believe
more-recent versions of FreeBSD do it differently.  When I wrote this
code, I could not see any reason for the "path" argument to be
interpreted differently from any other path.

-GAWollman