From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 22:27:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA16329 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:27:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ferrari.sfu.ca (ferrari.sfu.ca [142.58.110.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA16324 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:27:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fraser.sfu.ca (mcquiggi@fraser.sfu.ca [142.58.110.2]) by ferrari.sfu.ca with SMTP (8.7.1/SFU-2.6H) id WAA27042 (from mcquiggi@sfu.ca); Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:26:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin McQuiggin Received: by fraser.sfu.ca (8.6.12/SFU-2.6C) id FAA14144 (from mcquiggi@sfu.ca); Wed, 24 Jul 1996 05:26:52 GMT Message-Id: <199607240526.FAA14144@fraser.sfu.ca> Subject: Re: Shared varibles between processes To: amnuay@comnet.spu.ac.th (amnuay muthitacharoen) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:26:52 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "amnuay muthitacharoen" at Jul 24, 96 10:21:07 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi: > How can I write C program to use varibles that can be shared > beween processes? FreeBSD supports System V shared memory. Allocate a memory block, name it, and several processes can refer to it simultaneously. I suggest an excellent book, "Using C on the UNIX System" from O'Reilly and Associates, by David A. Curry. Hope this helps, Kevin -- Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD mcquiggi@sfu.ca