I'm not sure about IPC::MM, but IPC::ShareLite (the one I use) lets you specify permissions and whatnot when you create the shared memory segment. Perhaps that module will work better for you. IPC::Shareable is also a good one.
On Thursday 25 July 2002 07:38 pm, Marc Kelly wrote: > This may be more of an Apache question, but I saw a thread in the mod_perl > archives on caching methods that is relevant. > > I'd like to use IPC::MM to store data in shared memory across child > processes, but I've run into permissions problems. I'm assuming this is > because I'm creating the cache in startup.pl which is run by root, and > trying to store data in a child process that is run as user apache. If I > create the cache in a child process, I can write to it, but lose the > ability to use it in other child processes. > > The IPC::MM perldoc mentions file permissions, but I think that's for a > file-based cache, which doesn't apply here. I could be wrong on that and > just setting the permissions incorrectly. I haven't found a lot of > documentation about using this library, so maybe this isn't the proper way > for it to be used. > > I'm on Linux (RH 7.3/2.4.18-3) and apache 1.3.22. > > Thanks, > mk -- Cory 'G' Watson Hack, lest ye rust.
