Trying to create shared memory segments bigger than 256gB fails with -EINVAL
Issue
- A process fails with
-EINVAL
when attempting to create shared memory segments bigger than 256gB, either viammap(2)
orshmget(2)
syscalls.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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