In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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? The main author has been AWOL for some years now. I'm the current maintainer. Sorry about the missing INSTALL file. Looks like I made reference to it in the README but never created it. It installs with the normal setup.py: sudo python setup.py I'll put out an updated package with an INSTALL file one of these days. Thanks for pointing that out. Cheers -- Philip http://NikitaTheSpider.com/ Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
