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From: colin@la.excelan.com (Colin Goldstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Size of Shared Segment
Keywords: Shared Segment, DosGetShrSeg
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.195752.9946@novell.com>
Date: 22 Mar 91 13:21:35 GMT
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 19:57:52 GMT

In article <18806@milton.u.washington.edu> rol@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Paul Rolland) writes:
>
>	I've two processes running concurently. The first one 
>allocates a shared memory segment to put data in, with a known 
>name. It then starts the second program, giving him the name of 
>the segment as a parameter. So, the second program issues a 
>DosGetShrSeg to have a selector to access this memory. But I 
>don't know the size of this shared segment. How can I do that ?
>
>	Please Email an answer to rol@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr
>	Thanks,
>	Paul.

This is done by using the DosSizeSeg function. It take 2 params. The
first is the selector, the second a pointer to a long, which contains
the size upon return.

Colin
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