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Rework a bit /dev/shm magic.
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Authored by dchagin on Jan 11 2015, 2:30 PM.
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As for now our tmpfs is no longer being considered "highly experimental" remove /dev/shm magic commited in r218497 and convert tmpfs type to an expected magic number.

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rt/tst-shm test from glib-2.20

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dchagin retitled this revision from to Rework a bit /dev/shm magic..
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Out of curiosity, what did the deleted parts of code used to do, and why it's no longer needed?

In D1497#5, @trasz wrote:

Out of curiosity, what did the deleted parts of code used to do, and why it's no longer needed?

glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
if /dev/shm is not mounted glibc tries (where_is_shmfs() method) all entries in /proc/mounts by statfs() sys call
and check f_type against SHMFS_SUPER_MAGIC.
So, removed code weird )))

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 31 2015, 12:27 PM
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