Re: Bug 2838006 (Corrupt SHM_LOCK_DEST flag)

Roger Tsang <[email protected]> Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:25:03 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.cluster.ssic.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:56 AM, John Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

> John Hughes wrote:
> > The low 9 bits are the 3 octal digits of the shm access more "rwx".
> >
> > Above that we have at least a healthy 16-9 = 11 bits available.
> What lunatic wrote that?  Of course we have 16-9 = 7 bits available.
>
> The base kernel uses 3 (eventualy 4) so there are at least 3 bits for us.
>
> Think you are right.  Looks like the upper 3-bits are not used in the base.

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