usable of attached shared memory (done by parent) in child process?

[Root Boy Jim]

In article <26156 at adm.brl.mil> TAYBENGH%NUSDISCS.BITNET at cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
?Dear Unix-Wizards,
?        I have implemented a simple message-passing utility using SysV shared
?memory. I have an question of the use of shared memory after the process
?fork(). The question is:

The question is really: why do this when System V (and most everyone else)
provide you with message queues?
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