Shared Memory in BSD4.3 is lacking?

Dave Cornutt dkc at hotlr.ATT
Tue Mar 8 23:49:21 AEST 1988


In article <17584 at think.UUCP>, barmar at think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes:
> In article <12137 at brl-adm.ARPA> rbj at icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
> >   Trivia bowl time (related to another comp.unix.wizards topic).  Some have
> >   argued that a great way to access shared-memory regions is through the
> >   filesystem namespace.  Well, there is at least one operating system out
> >   there that does just that.  Which OS is that?
> >   [sound of Jeopardy theme music...]

VMS, of course.  There's just one small problem...to create a global
segment, you need a *privilege*.

Can you say INSTALL?  I knew you could.  (If you're a VMS admin,
you probably get lots of practice.)

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