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From: rbk@sequent.UUCP (Bob Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: Shared mems & sockets in single pgm
Message-ID: <19346@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 89 17:35:40 GMT
References: <397@bcsfse.UUCP>
Reply-To: rbk@crg2.UUCP (Bob Bruce Beck)
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In article <397@bcsfse.UUCP> paul@bcsfse.UUCP (Paul Hardiman) writes:
>Need to use shared memory as well as sockets.  I noticed 
>that the ucb universe has SYS V IPC stuff like semaphores and 
>message handling, but no shared mems.  They're in the
>att universe.
>Any ideas?

Check out the mmap(2) man page.  In Dynix, the System V shared-memory
interfaces are built entirely in user mode libraries on top of mmap(2).
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Bob Beck			uunet!sequent!rbk
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