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Question

HI,

I would like to learn about shared memory implementaion. I have basic idea about that. But, still i need some more example how shared memory implemented in mission critical applications. Kindly send me some reference URL or post some explainations

Answer

Here is a tutorial on using shared memory under unix. http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/node27.html

Shared memory techniques are OS specific, for portability you might want to look at a library which provides simpler, portable and typically higher level facilities. For example,

The Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE) http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-overview.html http://www.huihoo.org/ace_tao/ACE-5.2+TAO-1.2/ACE_wrappers/docs/tutorials/019/page01.html

Boost.Interprocess http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/doc/html/interprocess.html