To share memory between processes, you first have to create a new area of memory and then map it to the address space of each process that wants access to it, as shown in the following diagram:
The naming of POSIX shared memory segments follows the pattern we encountered with message queues. The segments are identified by names that begin with a / character and have exactly one such character. The shm_open(3) function takes the name and returns a file descriptor for it. If it does not exist already and the O_CREAT flag is set, then a new segment is created. Initially, it has a size of zero. You can use the (misleadingly ...
