FWIW, Cygwin (Gnu/posix on win32) supports mmap, but I don't know about
sysvshm.
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@hem.passagen.se]
Sent: Saturday, 17 June 2000 7:36 AM
To: Andres Kroonmaa
Cc: Adrian Chadd; squid-dev@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: ideas
Andres Kroonmaa wrote:
> just wondering, some OS'es implement sysvshm by using mmap. wonder if
> mmap is more portable and/or may give any added possibilities.
They are fairly equivalent in function.
mmap() has the added benefit of being able to be persistent between
reboots, while shm only can persist until reboot.
Received on Mon Jun 19 2000 - 01:13:27 MDT
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