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- From: gbacon@oreo (Greg Bacon)
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- Subject: Re: System V IPC documentation
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 23:16:49 GMT
- Organization: The University of Alabama in Huntsville
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- Philip Nelson (nelsonp@gbms01.uwgb.edu) wrote:
- : I have been trying with limited success to write code with Sys V IPC for
- : shared memory access and message passing. While have had partial success
- : I have not been consistently been able to allocate or attach the shared
- : areas. It seems to have something to do with the flags argument to
- : shmget but I don't have enough information to understand what is
- : happening in the kernel tables. I need to solve this for my own program
- : but more importantly for a group of students who may be doing this in
- : next year's class. I need to know more about the flags argument and how
- : keys and ID's are allocated and maintained.
-
- : Philip Nelson <nelsonp@gbms01.uwgb.edu>
-
- Take a look at W. Richard Stevens' _UNIX_Network_Programming_. It's an
- excellent book, and it covers (among others) SysV IPC. Otherwise, consult
- your system's manual pages.
-
- Greg
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- Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
- University of Alabama in Huntsville
- CS Department Systems Support Team
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