linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] /proc/pid/maps doesn't match "ipcs -m" shmid

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Date:	Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:24:11 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] /proc/pid/maps doesn't match "ipcs -m" shmid

Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com> writes:
>
> ------ Shared Memory Segments --------
> key        shmid      owner      perms      bytes      nattch     status
> 0x00000000 884737     db2inst1  767        33554432   13
> 0x00000000 950275     db2fenc1  701        23052288   13
>
> There is no unique way to identify them easily :(
>
> I guess, like you suggested, we can change the dentry name to use shmid
> instead of the portions of the "key" to make it unique. I think, I can 
> work out a patch for this.

Thanks.  That should be more robust.

Eric
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