From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 12 03:24:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA29990 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 03:24:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from omega.noc.easynet.net (omega.noc.easynet.net [193.131.248.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id DAA29983 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 03:24:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chrisy@omega.noc.easynet.net) Received: (qmail 23995 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Jan 1998 11:24:55 -0000 Message-ID: <19980112112455.48744@flix.net> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:24:55 +0000 From: Chrisy Luke To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sharable static arrays? References: <199801121031.EAA00243@detlev.UUCP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <199801121031.EAA00243@detlev.UUCP>; from Joel Ray Holveck on Mon, Jan 12, 1998 at 04:31:45AM -0600 Organization: The Flirble Internet Exchange X-URL: http://www.flix.net/ X-MOD1: X X-MOD2: X X-Fortune: There *__is* intelligent life on Earth, but I leave for Texas on Monday. X-FTP: ftp://ftp.flirble.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Joel Ray Holveck wrote (on Jan 12): > Are static arrays shared across multiple invocations of a program? Not intrinsicly. You'll have to either use SYS-V style shared memory (options SYSVSHM SYSVSEM SYSVMSG in a kernel config and shmget(2) etc) or use BSD style mapped memory (mmap(2)). Chris. -- == chris@easynet.net, chrisy@flix.net, chrisy@flirble.org. == Head of Systems for Easynet Group PLC.