Re: vote status

[Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com>]

> > I sure hope Jim has one more try at the monitor left in him. BTW, IRIX and
> > NetBSD work fine using -DHAVE_MMAP.
> > 
> 
> Well, right now I'm trying to read-up on shared mem... A/UX (which is
> what I mainly use) doesn't have mmap but does have shmop() (and it's
> cousins), which may be the case with other SysV-based systems.
> 
> I'd like to add that in, but it certainly won't be in time for this
> patch session. Of course, httpd_monitor requires access to the scoreboard
> data.
> 

On this topic... How does one access shared memory from a non desendent
process? Is it possible?