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#Include : SHM - RDONLY, Which Makes The Attached Memory Read-Only

Shared memory allows unrelated processes to access the same logical memory. It is created using shmget which returns an identifier. shmat attaches the shared memory to a process's address space by taking the identifier and an address. shmdt detaches shared memory from a process. shmctl controls shared memory, allowing querying, modifying, and deleting shared memory segments.

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#Include : SHM - RDONLY, Which Makes The Attached Memory Read-Only

Shared memory allows unrelated processes to access the same logical memory. It is created using shmget which returns an identifier. shmat attaches the shared memory to a process's address space by taking the identifier and an address. shmdt detaches shared memory from a process. shmctl controls shared memory, allowing querying, modifying, and deleting shared memory segments.

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Shared Memory

It allows two unrelated processes to access the same logical memory.

#include <sys/shm.h>

1. Create shared memory using shmget function.

int shmget(key_t key, size_t size, int shmflg);

The program provides key which effectively names the shared memory segment. Special key
(IPC_PRIVATE) creates shared memory private to the process.

Size- Amount of memory required in bytes

Shmflg- Nine permission flags that are used in the same way as mode flag for creating files.

If the shared memory is successfully created, shmget returns a nonnegative integer, the shared
memory identifier. On failure, it returns –1.

2. When you first create a shared memory segment, it’s not accessible by any process. To
enable access to the shared memory, you must attach it to the address space of a process.

void *shmat(int shm_id, const void *shm_addr, int shmflg);

The first parameter, shm_id, is the shared memory identifier returned from shmget.

The second parameter, shm_addr, is the address at which the shared memory is to be attached to the
current process. This should almost always be a null pointer, which allows the system to choose the
address at which the memory appears.

The third parameter, shmflg, is a set of bitwise flags. The two possible values are SHM_RND, which,
in conjunction with shm_addr, controls the address at which the shared memory is attached, and
SHM_RDONLY, which makes the attached memory read-only.

If the shmat call is successful, it returns a pointer to the first byte of shared memory. On failure –1 is
returned.

3. The shmdt function detaches the shared memory from the current process. It takes a pointer
to the address returned by shmat. On success, it returns 0, on error –1. Note that detaching
the shared memory doesn’t delete it; it just makes that memory unavailable to the current
process.

int shmdt(const void *shm_addr);

4. The control functions for shared memory.

int shmctl(int shm_id, int cmd, struct shmid_ds *buf);

The first parameter, shm_id, is the identifier returned from shmget.

The second parameter, command, is the action to take. It can take three values: IPC_STAT, IPC_SET,
IPC_RMID.
IPC_STAT: Sets the data in the shmid_ds structure to reflect the values associated with the shared
memory.

IPC_SET: Sets the values associated with the shared memory to those provided in the shmid_ds data
structure, if the process has permission to do so.

IPC_RMID: Deletes the shared memory segment.

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