Support for POSIX shared memory

[Ambika Tripathy]

Hi,

The current libnetconf is using SysV-IPC-SHM shared memory rather than POSIX variant. This causing problem in porting the lib in QNX version. 

br,

Ambika

[Radek Krejčí]

Hi Ambika,
I added issue 26 into the libnetconf issue tracker. Due to some other tasks I cannot go into it immediately. It will also include some general review of using shared memory, because we know about another issue with it which I would like to solve together with your request.

Best regards,
Radek

Dne 21.1.2014 07:38, Ambika Tripathy napsal(a):

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[scon...@gmail.com]

Hi Radek

Has there been any update to this situation? I'm trying to run on ucLinux and unfortunately this also does not support System V Shared Memory (shmget). Instead it supports POSIX shared memory (shm_open)

Sean

[Radek Krejčí]

Hi,
no change so far (it is tracked as issue #26) - it's not currently a priority for us, anyway, we would be interested if you were willing to post some patch.

Regards,
Radek


Dne 30.4.2015 v 16:59 scon...@gmail.com napsal(a):

[scon...@gmail.com]

Hi Radek

I have attached a version of internal.c that uses this Posix Shared Memory functions in place of the System V Shared Memory functions. This is enabled at compile time with the flag -DPOSIX_SHM

Take a look through it to see if it's OK. It works for me on ucLinux like this.

BTW - it might be useful to someone else, that I found out later that there is a flag on the Kernel compilation (CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y) which enables the System V Shm functions :-)

Sean

[Radek Krejčí]

Hello Sean,

sorry for the delay. Thank you for the patch, I've modified it slightly and now the functionality is available in the libnetconf master branch. Detection of System V/POSIX shared memory implementation should be now automatic, performed by configure, so you don't need to specify -DPOSIX_SHM anymore. I would appreciate if you can test the current solution in your environment and configrm that everything is working.

Best regards,
Radek


Dne 11.5.2015 v 11:18 scon...@gmail.com napsal(a):