[Mono-dev] xbuild - ** ERROR **: shm_semaphores_init: semget error: No space left on device.

Jonathan Pryor jonpryor at vt.edu
Fri Nov 12 17:28:26 EST 2010


On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 13:11 -0800, Arne Claassen wrote:
> Right, that's why I'm confused. That release states "Users seeking  
> absolute stability should stay on Mono 2.6", but my impression is that  
> all bug fixes are just going into 2.8.

"Stability" generally means "minimal changes."  The bug fixes going into
2.8 likely change lots of code, and thus have had (comparatively) little
testing, whereas the aim of 2.6 is to fix bugs while making as few
changes as possible (as we don't want a fix for one bug to introduce
another).

 - Jon




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