On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:20:45PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > This I understand, and it isn't a problem, since the only processes > accessing 'shared memory' are child processes from the parent that > originally creates it ...
If you're not going to support mapping of this segment by external processes, then you don't even need to define a filename. Simply call apr_shm_create() w/ a NULL filename and you will get anonymous shared memory. On Unix this segment will be automatically inherited by child processes, and on Win32 there is even some non-portable trickery you can do to pass the map metainformation around so it looks like it was inherited. I took great care to document the interface calls in the apr_shm.h file. Let me know if you have any other questions or if something in there is unclear. -aaron
