Re: Does OS/2 support Shared Memory?

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From: KUMARADAS JOSEPH CARL
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:26

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In article <C17Kwo.7E7@techbook.com> tonyb@techbook.com (Tony Bennett) writes:
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>If this is in the FAQ, I'm sorry.  
>Unix has the concept of shared memory, that is multiple programs accessing a
>common area of memory.  Does OS/2 support that concept and if so what functions
>are used...  a little snippet of code using those functions would be
>very helpfull.
>Thanks in Advance.
>-- 

Yes, it supports shared memory.  There is supprt for both "named" and
"give-get" shared memory.  Take a look at the following API's: 
DosAllocSharedMem(), DosGetNamedSharedMem(), DosGiveSharedMem(),
DosGetSharedMem() and DosFreeMem().

Carl.

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From: kumarad@ecf.toronto.edu (KUMARADAS JOSEPH CARL)
Subject: Re: Does OS/2 support Shared Memory?
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