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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Richard Whittaker <rwhittak@gnat.nwtel.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Semaphore and Shared memory questions...
Date: 20 Nov 2002 22:16:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1037830594.3267.94.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20021120133929.02485ae8@gnat.nwtel.ca>

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 21:42, Richard Whittaker wrote:
> At 10:04 PM 11/20/2002 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> >The sysctl interface and sysctl setting tools on boot exist precisely so
> >you dont have to hack these things around
> 
> Allright... This is fine by me... One of my questions was (and still is), 
> what do I pass to sysctl for setting /proc/sys/kernel/sem?...
> 
> Setting shmmax was easy, since it's only a single hex value, but sem is 
> puzzling me... Is a space separated list of values going to work?...

Right first guess. Its mostly historical that it isnt 4 values.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-20 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-20 21:30 Richard Whittaker
2002-11-20 22:04 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 21:42   ` Richard Whittaker
2002-11-20 22:16     ` Alan Cox [this message]
     [not found] ` <sddb931a.041@nwtel.ca>
2002-11-20 22:17   ` Richard Whittaker
2002-11-20 22:33     ` Randy.Dunlap

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