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Old 03-20-2010
Memory sharing with NCURSES
Hey, Im using a shared memory segment to share a WINDOW structure among 2 processes. Basically I'm building a multi-player snake game in which multiple prrocesses access the window.

The 'parent' process initializes the shared memory segment and puts the window in it. I can access and perform operations normally from the parent process. However, when I get access to the shared memory segment from the child process any operation results in a segmentation fault. Any ideas whats causing this ?
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Old 03-20-2010
Like the doctor says, if it hurts when you do that -- don't do that. ncurses is not designed to work in this way and cannot be used in such a fashion. You'll need to have one program controlling the display and the other just interacting with the 'server' program.
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