Re: Shared Memory

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Mon, 12 May 1997 11:31:54 +0200

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> ANOTHER process' address space, only my own. The problem I am trying to
> address is that I have one process running as root and another process
> that is not. The non-root process communicates with the root process and
> asks it for locked-in pages. The root process will then map the locked
> pages it has in its address space into the client's address space and
> return a pointer to this area back to the client. As far as I know mmap

You can do this with the "SysV IPC" shared memory functions.

olaf

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