linux-kernel - Re: shared memory

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Date:	Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:57:15 +0000
From:	Luciano Rocha <luciano@...otux.com>
To:	Rafael Sisto <rafael.sisto@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: shared memory

On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 04:51:39PM -0300, Rafael Sisto wrote:
> Hi, Im working on a project working on linux kernel 2.6.17
> I have to share memory on user level... I have to build something like
> a server process that "exports" a portion of his virtual memory, and
> other client process may ask the kernel for that memory and use it (as
> its own).
> I managed to build a structure on the kernel.

Why? Aren't SysV IPC or Posix IPC enough?

See "man shm_open", for the new Posix version, and "man shmget" for the
old SysV IPC version.

-- 
Luciano Rocha <luciano@...otux.com>
Eurotux Informática, S.A. <http://www.eurotux.com/>

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