Nikita the Spider wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> greg wrote: >>> Carl Banks wrote: >>>> In C you can use the mmap call to request a specific physical location >>>> in memory (whence I presume two different processes can mmap anonymous >>>> memory block in the same location) >>> Um, no, it lets you specify the *virtual* address in the process's >>> address space at which the object you specify is to be mapped. >>> >>> As far as I know, the only way two unrelated processes can share >>> memory via mmap is by mapping a file. An anonymous block is known >>> only to the process that creates it -- being anonymous, there's >>> no way for another process to refer to it. >> On POSIX systems, you can create a shared memory object without a file >> using shm_open. The function returns a file descriptor. > > Sorry I missed the OP, but you might be interested in this shared memory > module for Python: > http://NikitaTheSpider.com/python/shm/
Thanks; I just downloaded it. It seems to be missing the INSTALL file; any idea where I could find that, or should I write to the author? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
