My point was you can't simply copy integers across processes, they won't map to the same vnode. You must use a mechanism for passing them between these processes, and this comes at a price.
If you're looking for a cross-platform shared-memory implementation, APR's got it: apr_shm.h If you want to do memory management in that segment, feed it to apr_rmm.h -aaron On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:47:28AM -0500, Rose, Billy wrote: > Hummm. What are your thoughts on shmget() allocating a global segment owned > by the master process that each child can get at? Is there a Nix out there > that doesn't have shmget()?
