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From: richard@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Shared Memory in BSD4.3 is lacking?
Message-ID: <270@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Mar 88 23:25:31 GMT
References: <9100@ism780c.UUCP> <14020007@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Reply-To: richard@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Richard Tobin)
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In article <14020007@hpisod2.HP.COM> decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) writes:
>There should be a way to cause private shared memory segments
>to vanish upon termination of a process or process group.

Is this not when happens when you do
   shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, 0);
?

I know it's not what the documentation says, but it's what it seems to do
(at least in Sun's implementation of system V shared memory).
-- 
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