QNX Neutrino provides a simple RAM-based “filesystem” that allows read/write files to be placed under /dev/shmem.
Shared memory objects in the /dev/shmem directory are advertised as “name-special” files (S_IFNAM), which fools many utilities—such as more—that expect regular files (S_IFREG). For this reason, many utilities might not work for such files. Files placed there using normal command-line utilities look and act like normal files.
This filesystem is mainly used by the shared memory system of procnto. In special situations (e.g., when no filesystem is available), you can use the RAM filesystem to store file data. There's nothing to stop a file from consuming all free RAM; if this happens, other processes might have problems.
You'll use the RAM filesystem mostly in tiny embedded systems where you need a small, fast, temporary-storage filesystem, but you don't need persistent storage across reboots.
The filesystem comes for free with procnto and doesn't require any setup or device driver. You can simply create files under /dev/shmem and grow them to any size (depending on RAM resources).
Although the RAM filesystem itself doesn't support hard or soft links or directories, you can create a link to it by using process-manager links. For example, you could create a link to a RAM-based /tmp directory:
ln -sP /dev/shmem /tmp
This tells procnto to create a process-manager link to /dev/shmem known as /tmp. Most application programs can then open files under /tmp as if it were a normal filesystem.