shmat() & shmdt() questions.

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1990Sep22.163631.23688 at NCoast.ORG> allbery at ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/KT) writes:
>Yes, this is a change of tune for me.  But I was hoping that AT&T would
>eventually integrate the two namespaces into a single one.  From the
>UNIX/WORLD description, it looks like they have... research, at least.  (See
>the article on Plan 9.)  I wonder how long before the commercial side picks up
>on that concept?

Actually they have.  System V.4 provides memory mapped files and with the
way virtual memory is managed, a memory mapped file that is being accessed
will attain about the same performance as shared memory, plus you use the
file system to access the file.


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