Yo Hal!

On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 17:42:24 -0700
Hal Murray via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:

> > Are UNIX domain sockets available on all OSes?  If so, that's worth
> > considering.   
> 
> One advantage of the read-only SHM mode is that it supports multiple
> readers. So you could run shmmon while ntpd is also running.

Another is that you can allow anyone on the localhost to read the SHM
without any risk of them messing up the SHM data.

It is also fast since it is memory mapped.  No system call overhead.

RGDS
GARY
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