At 04:57 PM 3/27/2002, you wrote:
>Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> >
> > So if a third-party is interested in examining the scoreboard, they
> > have to do it either via a module or attach to the shared-memory
> > segment?
> >
>
>Yep... For the record, we don't use any of this right now, and I doubt
>that building with it defined would work at all. In the old days,
>the scoreboard was implemented as a file; we added mmap() and shmget()
>later, but always kept file-based around. What we do now is use
>shared mem exclusively, whether it maps to a file or not. The 2
>are very different :)

Nothing that I know of says they cannot define an shmem backing file and
map that <named> file for monitoring the server.

There simply won't be a 'file'-based scoreboard API, right?

Bill


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