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Old 05-19-2005
Reading From Shared Memory ..

Hello everybody ..
Can anybody tell me about this problem ..
i have a client will read from the user the name of a file and put it into a shared memory .. The problem is .. how can I let the server read this filename in the shared memory ? ..
Thanks in advance ..
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Old 05-27-2005
have you tried using the ipcs command in unix if this is what you are using.
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