Shared Memory Problem

[Jon Zeeff]

In article <3246 at ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> tuck at iris.ucdavis.edu (Devon Tuck) writes:
>in FORTRAN, to our Xenix 386/20 system.  It is necessary for at least 3
>different programs to have access to an input buffer which is constantly
>being filled. 

>The closest solution I have found, is to create a host subroutine which
>passes the buffer array of a program into  shared memory, loads it with the
>new information, and then returns it.  The problem with this is, the loop
>which checks for this new information will most probably be an infinite
>loop,

If I understand your situation correctly, you want several programs to 
wait on an update of a shared memory segment without sitting in an 
polling loop.  One way to do this would be to create a fifo (with 
mknod(1)) for each process and write a byte to each of them when you 
update the segment.  The other processes can do a blocking read on the 
fifo.  This is just the first thing that came to mind - there are 
probably other ways to do this.  


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