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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Shared data memory
From:       Carsten Pfeiffer <carpdjih () cetus ! zrz ! tu-berlin ! de>
Date:       2001-09-23 19:53:46
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On Sonntag, 23. September 2001 19:32 Ellis Whitehead wrote:

> Is there a way to share data address space between applications?  For the
> work I'm doing on global shortcuts, it would be very convenient to have
> access to a component whose data could be shared among apps, rather than
> relying on dcop calls.

You could use Shared Memory (see e.g. man shmget). A nice wrapper class for 
that would be nice (there's some portability problems, as was discovered when 
using it for thumbnail creation).

Cheers
Carsten Pfeiffer

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