Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 8 Aug 1996 12:42:41 -0700 | From | Rakesh Dubey <> | Subject | Re: shared memory |
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> > I have a buffer of reserved physical memory which is mmapped into a > user process' address space. I would like to share this buffer > between multiple processes (specifically with the X server via an > XShmImage). Is there any mechanism in the kernel which could deal > with this -- for example a way of specifying an address to something > like shmget. If not, how would I go about patching my kernel to allow > this? -- is it likely to be straightforward? > > Cheers, Ian
If it is not too much trouble, can you tell me how to map kernel memory into a user process' address space? I am trying to write a driver which could use this feature.
Thanks.
-Rakesh
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