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a limited port of sys V shared memory available soon
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- Subject: a limited port of sys V shared memory available soon
- From: Ronald Van Iwaarden <vaniwaar at ca dot metsci dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 17:30:22 -0800 (PST)
Hi,
system V shared memory was needed for some work I was doing and I
know many people are interested in this as well. I will be posting a port
with limited functionality to the list tomorrow but be warned, it is
_very_ limited. Here are the problems/shortcomings I can think of (off of
the top of my head):
shmat must be called after a fork()
shmat must be called by a forked process/thread (I think)
shmget mostly ignores permissions
shmctl is mostly useless, ditto for shmdt
I know this is very limited. I wrote it only to meet my needs and those
needs are to share memory among fork()'ed processes. Perhaps someone else
can take it and advance it further.
--Ron
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