Shared Memory?
Shared memory (SHM) is another method of interprocess communication (IPC) whereby 2 or more processes share a single chunk of memory to communicate. The shared memory system can also be used to set permissions on memory, allowing for things like malloc debuggers to be written.
Types of Shared memory available
Basically there are two different types of shared memory available for most flavors of UNIX. As you may have guessed, each of the two orignal ancestors of modern UNIX have their own implementation, altough almost all modern UNIX flavors implement both. The names of the respective implementations are System V IPC, and BSD mmap.
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