From: mike AT mbsun DOT mlb DOT org (Mike Bernson) Subject: Malloc/Free for shared memory pool 8 Apr 1998 20:00:35 -0700 Message-ID: <352C3709.E0FD32BB.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@mbsun.mlb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" I have a number of changes that put the File descriptors into shared memory. Do people on this is think it is a good idea to put file descriptors in shared memory instead of local memory. This change also stoped the coping and most of the working in fork dealing with filedescriptors. Do people on this list like the idea of memory allocation for the the shared memory area. I have malloc/free for shared memory area. This allow me to remove fixed limits on a number of table used in the shared memory area. I can now allocate memory from a fixed shared memory pool area. The shared memory code has been used on WIN95 only. The notes in the source that state the memory can not be shared at the same address under windows 95 is false. All memory shared must be at the same address under Window 95. If the list thinks that this is a good idea I will start by make patches from the current source for added malloc/free of shared memory area. After that I can start to move the code for shared fhandler into B19. Please give me feedback on this.