root@qetzal.UUCP (09/13/87)
Here it is for all you Microport shmcreate afficionados :-) ------------ Subject: shmcreate After spending a long night trying to understand why shmcreate didn't work, I found that the shmget (create) call was missing the IPC_SHMPHYS flag! The program could never have worked as coded. Why was the program never tested before being distributed? I don't know. Do the following to patch shmcreate so the call is done correctly. patch shmcreate -b +-831 noerror Patch should return 0xa. This is the high-order byte of the flag 05000. Replace that value with the high-order byte of 045000 (74/0x4a) by installing the following patch: patch shmcreate -b +-831 noerror 74 Shmcreate should now work. ---------- -- Robert C. White, Jr *---- ----* MENTOR SOFTWARE, INC. 1-303-252-9090 ihnp4!upba!qetzal!rcw | |_| | Specializing in Unix applications, 11534 Steele St. | _ o _ | system software and administrativa. Thornton, CO 80233 | | | | | | "We will make it work for you."