On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Brian Gerst wrote:
> Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > I would like to be able to write to that variable and have it seen
> > by other tasks, since shared memory is shared memory. It's a shame
> > to mmap a shared library upon startup and then have to mmap some
> > additional shared memory for some inter-process communication.
>
> There are only two ways to share memory between processes:
> - SYSV shared memory
> - using clone() to share the VM.
>
> Shared libraries != shared memory. Each mapping of a shared library is
> copy-on-write. The purpose of shared libraries is to save memory, not
> for IPC.
>
> --
> Brian Gerst
It's a shame we don't have writable global sections in shared libraries
like the old VAXen did.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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