Help with a code snippet that fails in mock buildroots

[Deji Akingunola]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Lennart Poettering
<mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 11.04.08 22:07, Deji Akingunola (dakingun at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>  > Hi all,
>  >
>  > Can someone please explain (and possibly provide a solution) to me why
>  > the code below is failing in mock buildroot. It is run to check if the
>  > 'shm_open' function works when configuring latest mpich2 package, and
>  > its result is used to create a definition that's used later when
>  > compiling the package. The code runs fine (and the package builds fine
>  > too) on my rawhide system.
>  > Thanks.
>
>  Is /dev/shm/ available in the chroot env?
I have no idea; I ran 'rpm -q --whatprovides /dev/shm' on my system
and it returned 'file /dev/shm is not owned by any package', I wonder
how it get created. Thanks for your response.

Deji

> shm_open() is basically the
>  same as open(), however, it prepends /dev/shm to the file name. If
>  that dir is not writable (should be mounted as tmpfs) shm_open() fails,
>
>  Lennart
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