Re: Shared memory?

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Gan Wang (rock.csd.sgi.com!sgi.sgi.com!uunet.uu.net!ds9!wahoo!gan)
Fri, 30 May 1997 16:52:34 -0400

Amaury Aubel wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks to all those who helped me solve my pfLOD problem.
>
> I am having again trouble with the shared memory.
> I have an application with mutiple processes, namely an application process
> that spawns a database process. In the database process various structures are
> allocated from the shared arena using pfMalloc(..., pfGetSharedArena()).
> Yet when the app. process attempts to access a particular variable it is
> undefined and the application crashes.

How did you "spawn" the dbase process, fork??? A data structure that is
accessed by both app and dbase has to be malloc before the forking,
i.e., before pfConfig() in a Performer application, even if it's from a
pfSharedArena.

Hope it helps.

Gan

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