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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
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Hi Benjamin,

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>> mmap will do what you need. Create a 60K object on disk and mmap it
>> at the base address and then 60K further on for 4K. 
> 
> And try to use /dev/shm/ first...

If you can live with glibc >= 2.2 and kernel 2.4 you should use
shm_open, shm_unlink for object creation and deletion.

Greetings
		Christoph


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