Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!daver!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: anyone gotten mmap to work w/ perl? Message-ID: <28046072.4CFC@tct.com> Date: 11 Apr 91 13:11:13 GMT References: <535@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> <1991Apr9.051702.22978@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 10 According to lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall): >What you'd really kinda like is a way to mmap a particular variable, and >let Perl worry about it when it gets reallocated... If such a thing were done, we we would get shmat() for System V IPC almost for free. -- Brand X Industries Custodial, Refurbishing and Containment Service: When You Never, Ever Want To See It Again [tm] Chip Salzenberg ,