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From: Richard.Draves@CS.CMU.EDU
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Subject: Re: Mach + SYSV style shared memory
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.mach: 13-Dec-89 Mach + SYSV style shared
me.. Stan Smith@tekchips.LABS (707)

> Does anyone know how to get UNIX 5.3 style shared-memory on a Mach system?
> The netmemory server seems like the right idea but is
suboptimal for the local case; only one writer at a time.


The netmemoryserver doesn't distinguish among user-level clients on a
given machine; the true clients of the netmemoryserver are the kernels. 
So if all the tasks sharing a piece of memory are on the same machine,
they have true read/write shared memory.

Rich