Similar to /tmp, applications might well use /dev/shm as an IPC
rendezvous between instances, which wouldn't have worked without
--device=shm until now.
Because /dev/shm has specific characteristics (in particular it's
meant to always be a tmpfs), we offload the actual storage into a
subdirectory of the real /dev/shm. Because /dev/shm is a shared
directory between all uids, we have to be extra-careful how we
do this, which is why the test coverage here is important.
This is done on an opt-in basis because of its extra complexity.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
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