From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:35:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:35:43 -0500 Received: from whfirewall.nwtel.ca ([199.85.228.1]:41089 "EHLO whfirewall.nwtel.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:35:42 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.0.20021120133929.02485ae8@gnat.nwtel.ca> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:42:42 -0800 To: Alan Cox From: Richard Whittaker Subject: Re: Semaphore and Shared memory questions... Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1037829889.5122.89.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20021120131444.02482858@gnat.nwtel.ca> <5.1.1.6.0.20021120131444.02482858@gnat.nwtel.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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?... Thanks, Richard. --- Richard Whittaker, System Manager, NorthwesTel Inc. Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.