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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news.accessone.com!not-for-mail From: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Shared memory support? Date: 4 Apr 1996 21:40:51 -0800 Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4k2bp3$aig@austin.polstra.com> References: <4juar5$fuu@remus.reed.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: austin.polstra.com In article <4juar5$fuu@remus.reed.edu>, Robert Ankeney <bob@reed.edu> wrote: > > 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.) FreeBSD fully supports both SunOS-style mmap() and SVR4-style shared memory. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth