Chapter 17. Shared Memory
Modern operating systems enforce address space protection between processes. This means that the OS will not allow two distinct processes to write to each other's address space. Although this is what is needed in most cases, sometimes you may want your processes to share certain parts of their address space. Shared memory primitives allow you to do just this. In fact, when used correctly, shared memory can prove to be the fastest interprocess communication mechanism between collocated processes, especially if large amounts of data need to be shared.
Shared memory is not used only as an IPC mechanism. Shared memory primitives also allow you to work with files by mapping them into memory. This allows you to perform direct ...
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