David, > > Agreed. If any object in shared memory contained a pointer to another > > object in shared memory this could cause a problem. You would have to > > ensure that the shared memory was mapped to the same address in all > > processes otherwise the pointers would not be valid. > Since he's talking about a process that forks, there > shouldn't be a problem. > He just needs to create a shared mapping in the parent. After > the 'fork', the address will still be the same.
However if the program forks and calls exec* then this issue could arise. The title of the thread suggests this ;-) Cheers, Mark ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
