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From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
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To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@cygnus.rush.net>
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Subject: Re: mmap on /dev/zero
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On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Peter Edwards wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I seem to remember someone a while back suggesting that you could create
> > shared memory between processes using mmap on /dev/zero, and passing the
> > open descriptor to other processes (though I might be wrong).
> > As a result, I thought the following might allow child and parent to
> > share a mapped region:
> > 
> > fd = open("/dev/zero", O_RDWR);
> > fork();
> > p = mmap(0, getpagesize(), PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
> > 
> > A simple test indicated that the two mappings were seperate. (This was
> > on 2.2.8-RELEASE, if its of any consequence)
> > 
> > Is this possible to do such sharing through /dev/zero, or do I need to
> > inherit the mapped region? I'd like to be able to dynamically expand the
> > shared regions without resorting to using a normal file for the mapping,
> > or resorting to SysV shared mem.
> > (If this has been thrashed to death already, sorry, but the -hackers and
> > -questions archives don't appear to be searchable at the moment)
> 
> It has. :)
> 
> You can not do this, you must inherit the shared segment or use SYSV.
> 
> I do remeber someone trying some evil hack with /proc but i don't know
> if they were successful... were you Brian Feldman? :)

Me? I was just mmaping in parts of /proc/foopid/mem =)

> 
> -Alfred
> 
> 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Peter.
> > 
> > 
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