On 08/09/2010 09:00 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
You could allocate shared memory in chunks and then pass that out to requestors, the same way sbrk() does it.
sbrk() is described [1] as a "low-level memory allocator", which "is typically only used by the high-level malloc memory allocator implemented in the C library".
Think of my patch as the high(er)-level variant ;-) It's certainly doable using processes and shared memory. Yes. My patch shows one way of how to go a step into that direction.
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