Shared memory (shm) - a safe way to pick ids?

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to benson at odi.com (Benson I. Margulies):
>I'm on the verge of coding a simple use of the shm system call
>family on a system that dosen't supply the more modern mapping 
>calls.

System V IPC keys are Evil and Rude.  Don't use them.  Specify
IPC_PRIVATE as the key, then store the id in a place known to your
application.
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Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip at tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
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