Re: HEADS UP: Win32/OS2/BeOS native ports

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Igor Kovalenko" <Igor(dot)Kovalenko(at)motorola(dot)com>
Cc: "mlw" <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Win32/OS2/BeOS native ports
Date: 2002-05-04 00:05:39
Message-ID: 23481.1020470739@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Igor Kovalenko" <Igor(dot)Kovalenko(at)motorola(dot)com> writes:
> It does not have to be anonymous. POSIX also defines shm_open(same arguments
> as open) API which will create named object in whatever location corresponds
> to shared memory storage on that platform (object is then grown to needed
> size by ftruncate() and the fd is then passed to mmap). The object will
> exist in name space and can be detected by subsequent calls to shm_open()
> with same name. It is not really different from doing open(), but more
> portable (mmap() on regular files may not be supported).

Yes, but can you detect whether other processes have the same file open?

regards, tom lane

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