[H-GEN] tmpfs on /dev/shm

[Stuart Longland]

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James Mills wrote:

| Anyone know what the file system mounted on /dev/shm is used for in
| Debian ?

Gentoo seems to provide a hint in the default /etc/fstab file thats
shipped with the stage tarballs:

| # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
| # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
| # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
| #  use almost no memory if not populated with files)
| # Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
|
| none                    /dev/shm        tmpfs           defaults
           0 0
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