[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 766341] Do not rely on memfd as it requires a fairly recent kernel

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766341

--- Comment #6 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> ---
(In reply to Ray Strode [halfline] from comment #3)
> I think a better fall
> back strategy would probably be to use shm_open instead (there's a patch for
> that on bug 761095)

That would indeed be less prone to running out of space due to random apps
writing out temp files, although I believe shm_open() is implemented in terms
of writing to /dev/shm, which is just another tmpfs with its own separate
quota.

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