[Clug-tech] Advice on Shared Memory IPC under Linux?

[Mark Carlson]

On 2/27/08, John E Jardine <john_e_jardine at spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
>  I wanted to see if there were any 'gotchas' related to using Shared Memory
> under Linux (2.6).  I'm using W. Richard Stevens venerable contribution:
> "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment", along with the man pages for
> shmget() and friends.
>
>  Anybody been burned by stuff that's missing or incorrect in the man pages?

Not that I recall... APUE is gold!  The man pages are pretty good on
Linux.  If you find something is not working right, toss a test case
over to clug-progsig@ and I'll take a look at it.

-Mark C.