diff -ruN libv4l-0.6.0.orig/libv4lconvert/control/libv4lcontrol.c libv4l-0.6.0/libv4lconvert/control/libv4lcontrol.c
--- libv4l-0.6.0.orig/libv4lconvert/control/libv4lcontrol.c	2009-07-09 04:59:01.000000000 -0400
+++ libv4l-0.6.0/libv4lconvert/control/libv4lcontrol.c	2009-08-29 03:23:06.000000000 -0400
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@
 
 struct v4lcontrol_data *v4lcontrol_create(int fd, int always_needs_conversion)
 {
-  int shm_fd;
+  int shm_fd, fdflags;
   int i, rc, init = 0;
   char *s, shm_name[256];
   struct v4l2_capability cap;
@@ -311,19 +311,26 @@
     return data; /* No need to create a shared memory segment */
 
   SYS_IOCTL(fd, VIDIOC_QUERYCAP, &cap);
-  snprintf(shm_name, 256, "/%s:%s", cap.bus_info, cap.card);
+  snprintf(shm_name, 256, "/dev/shm/%s:%s", cap.bus_info, cap.card);
 
   /* / is not allowed inside shm names */
-  for (i = 1; shm_name[i]; i++)
+  for (i = 9; shm_name[i]; i++) //start after "/dev/shm", i = 9
     if (shm_name[i] == '/')
       shm_name[i] = '-';
 
   /* Open the shared memory object identified by shm_name */
-  if ((shm_fd = shm_open(shm_name, (O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_RDWR),
+  if ((shm_fd = open(shm_name, (O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_RDWR),
 			 (S_IREAD | S_IWRITE))) >= 0)
     init = 1;
-  else if ((shm_fd = shm_open(shm_name, O_RDWR, (S_IREAD | S_IWRITE))) < 0)
+  else if ((shm_fd = open(shm_name, O_RDWR, (S_IREAD | S_IWRITE))) < 0)
     goto error;
+  
+  /* This is all uClibc > 0.9.30 seems to do for shm_open() in librt/shm.c */
+  fdflags = fcntl(shm_fd, F_GETFD, 0);
+  
+  if (fdflags >= 0) {
+    fdflags = fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, fdflags | FD_CLOEXEC);
+  }
 
   /* Set the shared memory size */
   ftruncate(shm_fd, V4LCONTROL_SHM_SIZE);