Re: shmem in backends?

Yuri Dario (mc6530@mclink.it)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:33:23 +0100

On Mon, 20 Jul 1998 23:24:01 -0700, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:

> Matto> to be implemented using Sys V shared memory IPC (instead of
> Matto> pipes, as the connection to a child reader process)?
>
>I'd suspect problems with the OS/2 port.

OS/2 supports shared memory between processes, but actually using threads has less impact on system
resources. I'm working on multiple threads in backends that are using fork().

Bye,

Yuri Dario

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