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- Submitted-by: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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- In article <13442@cs.utexas.edu> fouts@bozeman.bozeman.ingr (Martin Fouts) writes:
- > Short persistance IPC mechanisms found in multithreaded shared memory
- > implementations consist of a small region of memory and a lock guarding
- > that region. Producer/consumer parallelism using this mechanism does
- > not need to be visible. Effectively, this is the shared memory
- > equivalent of an unnamed pipe.
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- Effectively, this *is* shared memory. And shared memory has proven itself
- to be a viable candidate for insertion into the name space.
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- I didn't say that every application of an IPC mevchanism should have its
- own entry in the name space. Creating a file for each element in a shared
- memory region makes about as much sense as creating a file for each
- message in a pipe. But the region itself should be visible from the
- outside.
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