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SHMAT(2)                  OpenBSD Programmer's Manual                 SHMAT(2)

NAME
     shmat, shmdt - map/unmap shared memory



SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/types.h>
     #include <sys/ipc.h>
     #include <sys/shm.h>

     void *
     shmat(int shmid, const void *shmaddr, int shmflg);

     int
     shmdt(const void *shmaddr);

DESCRIPTION
     shmat() maps the shared memory segment associated with the shared memory
     identifier shmid into the address space of the calling process. The ad-
     dress at which the segment is mapped is determined by the shmaddr parame-
     ter. If it is equal to 0, the system will pick an address itself.  Other-
     wise, an attempt is made to map the shared memory segment at the address
     shmaddr specifies. If SHM_RND is set in shmflg, the system will round the
     address down to a multiple of SHMLBA bytes (SHMLBA is defined in
     <sys/shm.h> ).

     A shared memory segment can be mapped read-only by specifying the
     SHM_RDONLY flag in shmflg.

     shmdt() unmaps the shared memory segment that is currently mapped at
     shmaddr from the calling process' address space.  shmaddr must be a value
     returned by a prior shmat() call. A shared memory segment will remain ex-
     istent until it is removed by a call to shmctl(2) with the IPC_RMID com-
     mand.

RETURN VALUES
     shmat() returns the address at which the shared memory segment has been
     mapped into the calling process' address space when successful, shmdt()
     returns 0 on successful completion. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned,
     and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
     shmat() will fail if:

     [EACCES]      The calling process has no permission to access this shared
                   memory segment.

     [ENOMEM]      There is not enough available data space for the calling
                   process to map the shared memory segment.

     [EINVAL]      shmid is not a valid shared memory identifier.

                   shmaddr specifies an illegal address.

     [EMFILE]      The number of shared memory segments has reached the sys-
                   tem-wide limit.

     shmdt() will fail if:

     [EINVAL]      shmaddr is not the start address of a mapped shared memory
                   segment.

SEE ALSO
     mmap(2),  shmctl(2),  shmget(2)

OpenBSD 2.6                     August 17, 1995                              1

Source: OpenBSD 2.6 man pages. Copyright: Portions are copyrighted by BERKELEY
SOFTWARE DESIGN, INC., The Regents of the University of California, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Free Software Foundation, FreeBSD Inc., and others.



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