Shared memory and IPC

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

hiya wez, hope this helps.  oh, yes: man mmap: MAP_FIXED
("use of this option is discouraged" :) :)

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Subject: Re: Shared memory and IPC
To: lkcl at samba-tng.org (Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton)
From: Alan Cox 

> does Linux support shared memory that guarantees that
> it will be made available at the same address in multiple
> processes?

both mmap and shmat can do that. Obviously you need to have ensured the
address range in question is free

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