IPC facilities (shared memory)

[Brandon Allbery]

As quoted from <9947 at steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> by davidsen at steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr):
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| In article <150 at marob.MASA.COM> samperi at marob.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes:
> (statement that processes don't inherit shm segments after fork() in SysV)
| | Perhaps you are talking about the Xenix-style IPC facilities here
| 	See original posting... I said SysV and meant it.
| | (sgget, etc.) which I no nothing about.  When the SysV-style facilities
| | are used a forked child process must attach a shared memory segment
| 	Not true!
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>From the manual page for fork(2), System V Release 2:

"...the child process inherits the following attributes from the parent
process:

	...
	all attached shared memory segments
	..."

I'll check the Xenix manuals at work tomorrow and see what they say, but
remember that Xenix 5 is schizoid about shared memory... no telling from
my end whether System V shared memory is implemented in terms of Xenix shared
data or vice versa or if they're separate facilities (but they *do* share a
global pte table, according to the Xenix V/386 manual at work!).
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