Shared Memory SYS V

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:47:50 -0500 (EST)
Anthony Gabrielson <agabriel at home.tzo.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 	I'm going to preface this question with its homework...  I'm 
> looking for some good examples of shmat with threads on the web. 
> Either that or a good explanation.  I need to use it in homework, and
> I will be away on a business trip the night its discussed.  So if
> anyone has a good example or a good explantion of how to use it with
> its tools I would appreciate it.
You are talking two different things. shmat(2) is one of the shared
memory system calls. Normally, one would use semaphores (semop(2)) to
protect access to a shared region. 

Threads is a different animule. POSIX threads use mutexes to protect
access to shared memory. However, using a mutex to protect a shared
memory object (shmat(2)) only provides protection from multiple threads
in the same process where semaphores are used between processes.
Additionally, threads would share memory defined locally within the
process. 

I've used both shared memory (shmat(2)) and threads. I've also used
fcntl locking as a protection mechanism.


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