On 08/09/2010 09:00 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> You could allocate shared memory in chunks and then pass that out to
> requestors, the same way sbrk() does it.
sbrk() is described [1] as a "low-level memory allocator", which "is
typically only used by the high-level malloc memory allocator
implemented in the C library".
Think of my patch as the high(er)-level variant ;-) It's certainly
doable using processes and shared memory. Yes. My patch shows one way of
how to go a step into that direction.
Regards
Markus Wanner
[1]: http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/moss/node39.html