On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > HOWEVER! supporting the data types that apr_pool_xxx() USES > is a different matter.
shm can be at different memory locations in all processes. pointers don't work. you'd need to radically change the basic data types, which would affect performance and make the code ugly. so i think this is a bad idea. btw, if you want to a shm database/hash table done properly, take a look at sleepycat db. -dean