Shared Memory

[Larry Rogers]

For some ideas on shared memory, messages, and semaphores, I can recommend
the ``Advanced Programmer's Guide to UNIX System V'' available from Osborne/
McGraw-Hill.  I am one of the authors of the book and I wrote the sections
in chapter 7 that describe these things and show examples.

As I read your note, I pondered the problem of sharing linked lists between
processes as the addresses stored in the data structures comprising the
list items cannot have process-specific addresses unless the shared
memory is placed at the same virtual location in each process.  This is
doable when the shared memory is attached, but the processes must
communicate this information (common header files?).  It's an
interesting concept, though.

Larry Rogers
Princeton University
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