On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 11:27:08AM -0700, Ian Holsman wrote: > Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > > >On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 11:04:09AM -0700, Jon Travis wrote: > > > >>As for the ability to use shared memory for this ... yeah that is > >>an interesting idea. What are your actual use cases for that? > >> > > > >Ian posted a patch to do something like this - I think he wanted a hash > >table that was shared across all processes. The problem gets to be > >growing the memory space, but I think his use case was with fixed > >memory. He could probably tell more about how he wanted to do it. > > > > yep... It didn't had a fixed amount of memory which you specified at > the start, and had fixed element/key sizes > It was implemented using arrays/offsets, so it didn't have to deal with > pointers. > > I was thinking mmap'ed files could be used to provide expandability.. .. > > hmm... sms - mmap might be interesting.. > > The code I posted didn't work as well as the current stuff does BTW, I > can put i t up on a website if you would like.
I'm still curious about the use case. I'm sure there is one, if you could just enlighten me. I already know it's 'cool'. -- Jon
