Re: POSIX shared memory question

On Jan 7, 1:43 pm, Rainer Weikusat <rweiku...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The idea behind this is to use mmap to map the object into the address
space of the process supposed to use it (possibly after having
ftruncated it to the desired size), cf

       http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/shm_open.html

But I don't see how that helps me as a developer using the API. I
might as well just stick to using pipes, fifo or sockets if I want a
file descriptor interface to talk to other processes.

B2003
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