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From: yedinak@motcid.UUCP (Mark A. Yedinak)
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Subject: Re: Sharing Memory Between Processes
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Date: 14 Nov 90 22:45:24 GMT
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mbrennan@swift.cs.tcd.ie writes:

:At the moment I know about:
:     2. shmat()/shmget()/shmop() which allow the two processes access
:	a piece of shared memory.  The problem with this is that one
:	is restricted to 24K (6 segments x 4K/seg) of shared memory.  
:	I need quite a bit more than this.

This limitation is depndent on the system. It is not imposed directly by the
library calls. Sorry I cannot give you anything more useful, just wanted to
clear this point up.

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:Micheal O Braonain     Roinn Riomheolaiochta, Colaiste Na Trinoide, BAC 2.
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