Re: New shmfs and Debian

[Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>]

> > > sure than at some point, after potato is released, people will try to use
> > > 2.4.x and some of them can face problems when their applications won't be
> > > able to use the shared memory.
> > 
> > Maybe we should add a script to base-files which mounts /var/shm depending
> > on whether the current kernel needs it... probably easier than messing
> > around writing script to automatically edit /etc/fstab.
> It has to be mounted before any scripts are run from init.d - some of the
> started programs might need SystemV IPC - you never know. More, the /var/shm
> must be mounted _after_ /var us mounted (if such is the case). The only
> reasonable place for this is /etc/fstab. And it should be done before potato
> goes out, because chances are it will coincide with the release of 2.4.0.

 I propose the following:

 After doing "mount -a", check if the shmfs was mounted (grep to
/proc/mount), if was not, check the kernel, if the kernel needs it, mount it.

 I think this is the best solution.. I dare everybody to think of a better
one... =)

 (was that correct English? =)  )