On Fri, January 5, 2007 5:09 pm, Jochem Maas wrote: > David George wrote: >> On 1/5/2007 5:41 PM, Jochem Maas wrote: >>> David George wrote: >>> >>>> I have an application on Linux 2.6.9 which uses posix shared >>>> memory and >>>> I need to access the shared memory via a web page using php. >>>> Looks like >>>> PHP only supports System V shared memory, which isn't an option >>>> for me >>>> in this case. >>>> >>> >>> is this what your looking for? >>> >>> http://php.net/manual/en/ref.shmop.php >>> >>> >> I thought shm and shmop were both system V? I may have >> misunderstood >> because in PHP they are accessed with a key, whereas POSIX shm is >> usually accessed via a name. >> >> Of course I could be wrong. :-) > > that goes for both of us, I was going on guess work really, based on > the fact > that this page mentions System V: > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.sem.php > > but this pages mentions only 'Unix Shared Memory': > > http://php.net/manual/en/ref.shmop.php > > I was kind of hoping thse 2 extensions were not actually [doing] the > exact same thing hiding behind 2 different (which seems silly) > > maybe a bigger egghead can shed some real light on the matter > (including the discrepancy between key/name that you mentioned). The User Contributed Notes (*always* read those!) make it clear that shmod is NOT Sys V. It looks like it's not POSIX either, but I could be reading too much into it... Seems more similar to POSIX than Sys V, from my limited experience^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H reading. :-) It's possible that "name" was changed to "key" just to be more consistent with the SysV stuff as a migration. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
