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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:41:31 +0100
From: Alex Riesen <fork0@users.sf.net>
To: Dirk Bull <dirkbull102@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: shmat problem
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Dirk Bull, Tue, Jan 07, 2003 09:14:17 +0100:
> saved me a lot of time. Finally, in the code they share pages, therefor 
> using SHM_REMAP is not that unsafe, but still not good practice?

it seems correctly implemented, but the approach is error-prone
(Doug McNaught pointed on that).
What would you do if pagesize change? Fixing the code again
maybe a painful way, if the remapping was made to a common
practice.

-alex
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