From: Thimble Smith
Date: October 24 2000 8:45pm
Subject: Re: Shared Memory.
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On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 06:29:17AM -0600, sasha@stripped wrote:
> 
> In order to share a connection you must stay in the same process - so using
> shared memory will not work even if you copy all the data structures. 
> 

The mm library uses mmap (or some other implementation) to make
sharing memory between processes portable.

http://www.engelschall.com/sw/mm/

Tim
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