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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Shared memory (shm) - a safe way to pick ids?
Message-ID: <2766B7F4.317@tct.uucp>
Date: 12 Dec 90 23:06:27 GMT
References: <1990Dec12.022343.1171@odi.com>
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies):
>I'm on the verge of coding a simple use of the shm system call
>family on a system that dosen't supply the more modern mapping 
>calls.

System V IPC keys are Evil and Rude.  Don't use them.  Specify
IPC_PRIVATE as the key, then store the id in a place known to your
application.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
"What's that thing, when people die, they take apart the body to see why?"
	       -- St. Theresa of the Net