PHP and Shared Memory

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What's the difference between the SEM and SHMOP functions in PHP? Are SEM functions exclusive for System V and SHMOP for UNIX?

vinncdu · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-06 23:27:24Z

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SHMOP functions are for UNIX systems only.

answered May 6, 2011 at 23:27

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Dustin Blake · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-20 19:26:26Z

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SHMOP functions can be used in *NIX and Windows environments. Semaphore is not available in Windows at all however, which also includes ftok().

If you check out the PHP documentation user comments for SHMOP, there are workarounds for getting a key to use with SHMOP in Windows without ftok().

answered Jul 20, 2011 at 19:26

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