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From: gisle@ifi.uio.no (Gisle Hannemyr)
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Subject: QNX shared buffer.
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I hope this is the appropriate newsgroup for questions about QNX.

I want to allocate a buffer that shall be used to share information between
several processes running on the same CPU.  Each process will run for a
short time, but I want the common buffer to exist "forever".

What I really want to do, is to write a program that mallocs some memory,
associate a name with it (so other processes can read it), and then dies,
leaving the malloced memory allocated and available for reads and writes
from other processes that knows its name.

1) Is this possible with QNX?  How?

If this is not possible, then:

2) How do I leave a program like that sleeping _forever_?  Preferably
   not using any cycles.

Any help is appreiciated.

- gisle hannemyr  (Norwegian Computing Center)
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