General purpose library for name/value pairs.

[Jordan Hubbard]

Yes, for anonymous shms this is certainly true.  Hey, if the application programmer *wants* to just pass a fd reference then there's certainly nothing preventing them from doing so in either case, I'm just suggesting that having an explicit OOB type for shared memory (named or otherwise) can be a good thing too.

- Jordan 

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On Jul 9, 2013, at 7:39, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> I'll only speak to the GC point.  For anonymous shm's (SHM_ANON), the segment
> is in fact GC'd on last close as there is no name to hold a reference to it.