shared memory in BSD 4.2

chris at mimsy.UUCP chris at mimsy.UUCP
Thu Feb 5 15:25:12 AEST 1987


In article <4200 at brl-adm.ARPA> stevens at anl-mcs.arpa (Rick L. Stevens) writes:
>Does anyone know how to map memory from two processes ( child and parent)
>to refer to the same virtual addresses? ...  I have tracked down mmap
>and munmap ....

Not implemented yet.  These remain unimplemented in 4.3BSD.  Don Libes
at NBS AMRF (...!umcp-cs!nbs-amrf!libes, but their UUCP link is down
until further notice) has routines for sharing varibles via IPC rather
than shared storage.
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