Leo Li wrote:
On 9/15/07, Rodney Dowdall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Please forgive my ignorance, but I am not certain on how the Unix
> shmget, shmat, shmdt functions work. I am trying to port the classlib
> to QNX Neutrino, which uses shm_open, shm_ctl and shm_unlink. In the
> shared memory code a control file is created, and then a key is
> generated using ftok with the control file name. Control file data is
> then written to the control file. When you do a shmat is the shared
Hi, Rodney:
Excuse me, are you trying to use a shared memory file as the control
file?
No. I wanted to know the behaviour of the ftok function and whether the
key that it generates based off of the filename and the ID is linked to
the file on disk in any way.
> memory attaching to the file? Or is it a clean area in memory? I'm
If you transfer a NULL parameter as the target address for shmat,
System will choose a proper block( and not allocated ) of virtual
memory space into which the shared memory will be mapped.
I don't have the shmat function on QNX. Only shm_open, shm_unlink, and
shm_ctl. I'm trying to provide the same functionality of the current
shared memory functions in the harmony classlib, but I have to use
different calls. I'm trying to make sure that the behaviour is consistent.
> wondering if I have to generate a new name for my shm_open call, or
if I
> can just use the control file name.
If you want shm_open to get different shared memory objects, it is
necessary to use distinct names. Although shm_open will return
different fid by the same name, the fid will reference the same shared
memory objects. Furthermore, the shared object is system wide and will
last till next boot or explicitly call shm_unlink if I have not missed
something
But is that what the shared memory routines in hyshmem.c in the portlib
want to have happen? It has a control file name and it creates a key
using that control file name and an ID of 1. The ID never changes.
Does the control file name change? Based on your comments if I shm_open
the control file, that would probably be a bad thing. I assume that the
control file is not shared between processes.
Thanks,
Rodney
