Re: [9fans] shared memory

[David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>]

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man segment

I wrote that for a business unit at lucent that needed globally shared
segments for in memory databases.

     EXAMPLE
          Create a one megabyte segment at address 0x10000000:
               % bind '#g' /mnt/segment
               % mkdir /mnt/segment/example
               % echo 'va 0x10000000 0x100000' > /mnt/segment/example/ctl

          Put the string ``hi mom'' at the start of the segment:
               % echo -n hi mom > /mnt/segment/example/data

          Attach the segment to a process:
          {
               ulong va;

               va = segattach(0, "example", 0, 0);
          }

You'll have to make a kernel with devsegment in it.

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From: okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] shared memory
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:52:08 +0900
Message-ID: <b7dbb55d564e34d09fe59ddea98ca20d@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp>

> It exists.  segattach(2) and rfork(2) should get you started.  You'll
> want to use lock(2), rendezvous(2), or thread(2) to coordinate access.
> pool(2) can be used to allocate pieces of it.

Hmm, I'm an application programmer at most, and want some
more user friendly functions such as shmat() etc.  Isn't it impossible?

kenji