3.4. Introduction to shared memory
The Inter-Process Communication (IPC) facilities are used by processes to communicate with each other and to synchronize their activities.[15] IPC facilities, semaphores, message queues, and shared memory are quite common services in the modern UNIX operating systems, including AIX. In this section, we focus on the shared memory on AIX.
[15] Signals are also commonly used for IPC in the UNIX operating systems. However, we do not discuss signals in this redbook, because the signal management on AIX conforms very well to many UNIX standards, such as POSIX.
The shared memory is usually used for the following purposes:
Sharing memory segments between processes
Mapped shared memory segments can serve as a large pool ...
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