Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!wuarchive!emory!kd4nc!n4hgf!wht From: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: shmat() system call? Message-ID: <188@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US> Date: 16 Aug 90 19:15:40 GMT References: <27@astph.UUCP> <187@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US> Reply-To: wht@n4hgf.UUCP (Warren Tucker) Organization: Amateur Radio Station N4HGF Lines: 13 In article thomas@uplog.se (Thomas Tornblom) writes: >In article <187@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US> wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker) writes: > > In article <27@astph.UUCP> jeff@astph.UUCP (8592x2) writes: > To be sure, specify the attach address, regardless of what the FM says. >This is not guaranteed to work. Typically the kernel allocates the addresses >depending of the memory layout of the running process. In all of the implementations I have used, the kernel performs this optimzation. And of course, it has been working me for 4 years. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Warren Tucker, TuckerWare gatech!n4hgf!wht or wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US "Tell the moon; don't tell the March Hare: He is here. Do look around."