[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#851427: Bug#851427: sysvinit makes /dev/shm a symlink to /run/shm, should be other way round

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2017, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 09:50:43PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > and /dev/shm is owned by root:root and has perms 1755?
> 
> actually I have both 1777 and 0755 here, which of the two is correct or
> are both fine??

It has to be mode 01777, read+write.  Otherwise, it breaks glibc's shm_*
and SuS/POSIX compliance, and you get to keep the pieces of everthing
that will fail in both subtle, and very non-subtle ways.

Such as Google Chrome / chromium.

-- 
  Henrique Holschuh