The file-oriented design of UNIX leads to such completely asinine misfeatures as the inability to have shared memory clean itself up as soon as the last process using it terminates.
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Windows programs that crash don't leave their shared memory around.
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Neither do unix ones unless you're using backwards programming idioms. shm_open+shm_unlink is atomic for all practical purposes (unlike many other situations where non-atomicity creates races).
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