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From: whofan@well.sf.ca.us (Brian Lawrence Dear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: shared memory functions?
Keywords: shared memory
Message-ID: <22197@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 16 Dec 90 07:46:15 GMT
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Reply-To: brian@coconut.com
Organization: Coconut Computing, Inc., La Jolla, CA
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Aha -- found a reference to "shared memory" in the Digital
Librarian (file OSSoftware/01_Mach/_PortsAndMessages.rtf).
It says:

	"As an alternative to messaging, Mach also supports
	 interprocess communication via shared memory.  However,
	 if you use interprocess communications you're responsible
	 for synchronizing the transmission and reception of
	 the message. . . ."

Ok fine, I'll be responseible for that. :-)
 
Problem is, this is the only place within the NeXT documentation
I can find that talks about shared memory.  And I found it by sheer
luck, not by using the Digital Librarian's search tools.
 
Anyone know what the Mach functions are called for implementing
(hopefully System V-like) shared memory on NeXT?

-- brian dear
   coconut computing, inc.
   brian@coconut.com