On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Tim Rühsen]
> > The mountdevsubfs.sh init script mounts /dev/shm with the noexec
> > flag.  UML (/usr/bin/linux) complains about that and doesn't start.
> 
> I suspect this use of /dev/shm/ is really a bug in UML.  /dev/shm/ is

Depends on what it is doing... dosemu wanted to use PROT_EXEC, maybe that's
the case with UML too?

I won't claim to know enough about sysv shared mem to know whether such
usage (whatever UML does, and what DOSEMU is doing) is sane, though.

> I suspect we need to provide some other tmpfs for users such as UML
> and ifupdown.

I am quite sure of it.

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