Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 1 Aug 96 07:41 CDT | Subject | Re: posix 4 extensions | From | (Johnie Stafford) |
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>>> On Wed, 31 Jul 1996 19:32:19 +0100 (BST), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) said:
>> What about the posix.4 shared memory objects? Any chance we might ever >> see them? The ability to map shared memory segments to the same >> logical address in several different processes would make the use of >> pointers in shared memory possible.
ac> Both mmap() and SYS5 shared memory can already do that
That's true, I just think that having a program specify an absolute memory location for data to be rather ugly.
Johnie
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