On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Ian Holsman wrote: > OK.. > got a strange question... > > I'm looking at the shared memory functions (in unix), and am struggling > to find out how one can attach to > a shared memory segment already created by another process. > > I want to be able to create a a shared memory version of the hash table > which will be accessable all the processes > but can't seem to see a method to do this, unless I create the shared > mem before I fork and the shared memory variable is > available . > > I can live with the above (creating the memory before I call fork) , but > was wondering if there was a better way (mmap'ed files perhaps)
Currently you can't, because MM doesn't really support it. We need to re-write the shared memory code, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to do that until the SMS stuff calms down. Ryan _____________________________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Covalent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
