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From: bob@reed.edu (Robert Ankeney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Shared memory support?
Date: 3 Apr 1996 17:00:21 GMT
Organization: Reed College,  Portland, Oregon
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I'm planning on writing an application that consists of several tasks that
need access to a common area of memory.  Does FreeBSD support shared memory
in some form?  Any idea if it's compatible with SunOS 4.1.3?  (I'd like to
have the application run there too.)

Thanks!
Robert

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