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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - Do not rely on memfd as it requires a fairly recent kernel"
href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766341#c6">Comment # 6</a>
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title="NEW - Do not rely on memfd as it requires a fairly recent kernel"
href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766341">bug 766341</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a href="page.cgi?id=describeuser.html&login=simon.mcvittie%40collabora.co.uk" title="Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>"> <span class="fn">Simon McVittie</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Ray Strode [halfline] from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=766341#c3">comment #3</a>)
<span class="quote">> I think a better fall
> back strategy would probably be to use shm_open instead (there's a patch for
> that on <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED FIXED - wayland: use shm_open instead of open in tmpdir"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=761095">bug 761095</a>)</span >
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.</pre>
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