From: Allan Schaffer (allan++at++sgi.com)
Date: 02/28/2000 13:49:51
On Feb 27, 2:43pm, Phoneix wrote:
> I was just wondering if any updates have occurred with the shared arena
> functionality under linux. Unfortunately I just discovered that it is
> not supported, which makes my project a little more difficult.
Nothing so far; this is what we're currently working on, as it's a
prerequisite for MP in Performer on Linux.
Two things to mention:
- Even though pfGetSharedArena() returns NULL currently, be
certain to use it in places where [in future releases] your
application should be allocating from shared memory instead
of the heap. This will greatly ease your future porting..
- George Koharchik's earlier comments are spot-on, if you're trying
to use a simple shared memory model to communicate with a
non-performer process it's fairly simple to cook something up on
your own, most good books on Linux Programming have a chapter or
two dedicated to IPC.
Allan
-- Allan Schaffer allan++at++sgi.com Silicon Graphics http://reality.sgi.com/allan
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