[ELDK] Posix Shared Memory

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <27dfa3d0805220031j5e89c99bh1524c764763fbbc5 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Using an AMC440EP and just realised the posix shared memory wasn't
> around. Had somewhat taken that for granted on my pc systems. To
> configure the kernel I've tried
> 
> Filesystems -> Pseudo filesystems -> Virtual memory filesystem support
> 
> or more simply, tmpfs. Do I also need to enable
> 
> 
> General Setup -> Use full shmem filesystem?

You have to enable CONFIG_SYSVIPC

> Regardless, neither seem to be working. If I use the tmpfs and mount
> it on /dev/shm as the man pages suggest, the tmpfs seems to work.
> Creation of files there work ok and disappear on unmounting, but still
> I get errors when trying to create a shared memory object. The
> returned error value (errno) obtained after a failed shm_open is also
> curious - 38. Which is one of the real time signals, not an expected
> shm_open error value.

Your interpretation is wrong. Errno == 38 == ENOSYS means
(see "man errno" and /usr/include/asm-generic/errno.h):

#define        ENOSYS          38	/* Function not implemented */

And "Function not implemented" makes perfect sense if you did not
cunfigure the feature in the kernel.

> If anyone's tried this before and has some advice, it'd be much
> appreciated, thanks.

Enable CONFIG_SYSVIPC and try again...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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