> Memory is "virtual", the addresses you appear to be working with are not real > (i.e. they don't refer to the real address of the physical RAM underneath). > Instead, a bit of hardware translates these to the real addresses as needed > at some level far below the perception of your program. You cannot access the > virtual address space of any other process other than your own.
That is, of course, not true. When a process forks, the child and the parent, though being two separate processes, still share the same virtual memory map (at least until the child calls exec (3)). And you can arrange to share pages of memory in different processes via, e.g, shmat (2), at the Unix level. That's how most databases (e.g. PostGreSQL) work, inter alia. Vincent_______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
