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- Submitted-by: miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman )
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- In trying to work with POSIX shared memory, I keep asking myself
- why is POSIX shared memory so complex? The only advantage I
- can see for POSIX's set of shared memory calls is eliminating
- the separate name space for System V shared memory ids. On the
- down side, it seems to require the availability of a disk
- (perhaps RAM disk) to store the file on, and requires that the
- file system service calls be resident. The file system is
- often unneccessary for many real-time applications, and doing
- without the file system code (which often costs extra from some
- R-T vendors) is thus desirable. In this particular instance,
- System V seems to be perfectly adequate, or am I missing
- something?
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- Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 43
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