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Re: HELP! SunView crashes on diskless 3/60 running 4.0.1!

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From: Jonathan P. Biggar
Date: Mon, 08 May 1989 17:34
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>	2.  What is /var/tmp/vm_fonts-n0, anyway?

I looked in our 4.0 sun sources and found out that this file is used as a
shared memory resource to share loaded fonts between sunview applications.
There must be some funny interaction between the shared memory support in
4.0.1 and the older 3.5 nfs that causes suntools to core dump.

Jon Biggar
jonab@nisd.cam.unisys.com
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From: jonab@nisd.cam.unisys.com (Jonathan P. Biggar)
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Subject: Re: HELP! SunView crashes on diskless 3/60 running 4.0.1!
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