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disk-backed shared memory IPC

disk-backed shared memory IPC

Posted Feb 12, 2009 13:07 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: disk-backed shared memory IPC by xoddam
Parent article: DazukoFS: a stackable filesystem for virus scanning

glibc nscd, for one. (That's how it can be so damn fast: nscd maintains the mmap()ed area, and every user of nscd just needs to yank stuff straight out of the cache, with no IPC as such at all.)


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