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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-04-26 15:06:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-05-02 01:24:19 +0200 |
| commit | dcde2f70372b49ec43efc5db864c9ff585d0a2dd (patch) | |
| tree | 78b9b7425130e4a5858e4c01a524d802423879ed /man/man7/shm_overview.7 | |
| parent | 12aca537ce78a41bbcdaf485209691e10f8002d7 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-dcde2f70372b49ec43efc5db864c9ff585d0a2dd.tar.gz | |
man/, share/mk/: Move man*/ to man/
This is a scripted change:
$ mkdir man/;
$ mv man* man/;
$ ln -st . man/man*;
$ find share/mk/ -type f \
| xargs grep -l '^MANDIR *:=' \
| xargs sed -i '/^MANDIR *:=/s,$,/man,';
$ find share/mk/dist/ -type f \
| xargs grep -l man \
| xargs sed -i 's,man%,man/%,g';
Link: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/YxcV4h+Xn7cd6+q2@pevik/T/>
Cc: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Cc: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Cc: Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man7/shm_overview.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man7/shm_overview.7 | 104 |
1 files changed, 104 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/man7/shm_overview.7 b/man/man7/shm_overview.7 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..85fbce2a00 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man7/shm_overview.7 @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 2008, Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk +.\" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.TH shm_overview 7 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +shm_overview \- overview of POSIX shared memory +.SH DESCRIPTION +The POSIX shared memory API allows processes to communicate information +by sharing a region of memory. +.P +The interfaces employed in the API are: +.TP 15 +.BR shm_open (3) +Create and open a new object, or open an existing object. +This is analogous to +.BR open (2). +The call returns a file descriptor for use by the other +interfaces listed below. +.TP +.BR ftruncate (2) +Set the size of the shared memory object. +(A newly created shared memory object has a length of zero.) +.TP +.BR mmap (2) +Map the shared memory object into the virtual address space +of the calling process. +.TP +.BR munmap (2) +Unmap the shared memory object from the virtual address space +of the calling process. +.TP +.BR shm_unlink (3) +Remove a shared memory object name. +.TP +.BR close (2) +Close the file descriptor allocated by +.BR shm_open (3) +when it is no longer needed. +.TP +.BR fstat (2) +Obtain a +.I stat +structure that describes the shared memory object. +Among the information returned by this call are the object's +size +.RI ( st_size ), +permissions +.RI ( st_mode ), +owner +.RI ( st_uid ), +and group +.RI ( st_gid ). +.TP +.BR fchown (2) +To change the ownership of a shared memory object. +.TP +.BR fchmod (2) +To change the permissions of a shared memory object. +.SS Versions +POSIX shared memory is supported since Linux 2.4 and glibc 2.2. +.SS Persistence +POSIX shared memory objects have kernel persistence: +a shared memory object will exist until the system is shut down, +or until all processes have unmapped the object and it has been deleted with +.BR shm_unlink (3) +.SS Linking +Programs using the POSIX shared memory API must be compiled with +.I cc \-lrt +to link against the real-time library, +.IR librt . +.SS Accessing shared memory objects via the filesystem +On Linux, shared memory objects are created in a +.RB ( tmpfs (5)) +virtual filesystem, normally mounted under +.IR /dev/shm . +Since Linux 2.6.19, Linux supports the use of access control lists (ACLs) +to control the permissions of objects in the virtual filesystem. +.SH NOTES +Typically, processes must synchronize their access to a shared +memory object, using, for example, POSIX semaphores. +.P +System V shared memory +.RB ( shmget (2), +.BR shmop (2), +etc.) is an older shared memory API. +POSIX shared memory provides a simpler, and better designed interface; +on the other hand POSIX shared memory is somewhat less widely available +(especially on older systems) than System V shared memory. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR fchmod (2), +.BR fchown (2), +.BR fstat (2), +.BR ftruncate (2), +.BR memfd_create (2), +.BR mmap (2), +.BR mprotect (2), +.BR munmap (2), +.BR shmget (2), +.BR shmop (2), +.BR shm_open (3), +.BR shm_unlink (3), +.BR sem_overview (7) |