[Python-ideas] Adding shm_open to mmap?

Sturla Molden sturla at molden.no
Thu Feb 16 02:40:43 CET 2012


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> P.S. I have posted a possible implementation of shm_open/shm_unlink for Windows at
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> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/concurrency-sig/2012-February/000058.html
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A temporary file is not backed shared memory on Windows, but is a persistent file on disk. You have to mmap from the OS' paging file to get shared memory.

Sturla





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