Aucbvax.4932
fa.unix-wizards
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards
Tue Nov  3 00:33:25 1981
Shared data
>From cbosg!dale@Berkeley Tue Nov  3 00:22:04 1981
About a year and a half ago Alan Hewett in Columbus BTL implemented a
form of shared memory in UNIX which permitted a user process to attach
any segment of any regular UNIX file to it's address space. This was
done with complete locking built in: file segments could be attached
read, read/write, readonly, exclusive write, etc. Interlocking with
simultaneous "normal" read/write access was also provided. The hooks
necessary to support such a "feature" were extensive, and somewhat
ugly, however. It was implimented by actually mapping selected
system buffers into a user's precess space.

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