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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How To Create And Use Memory Map Files
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:44:30 +0200
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On 19-02-18 10:19 , Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> In more OSes more advanced than Linux one can have shared memory without
> any files involved. The memory object could even be anonymous if one
> process passes a handle to the memory to another.

Linux supports the "Unix System V" inter-process communication 
mechanisms, including shared memory segments that are not memory-mapped 
files and can be anonymous in the above sense.

See e.g. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/svipc.7.html

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