Name : mm
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Version : 1.1.2
| Vendor : Ralf S_ Engelschall < rse_engelschall_com>
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Release : 1
| Date : 2000-06-28 09:53:53
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Group : Libraries
| Source RPM : mm-1.1.2-1.src.rpm
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Size : 0.10 MB
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Packager : Edward S_ Marshall < emarshal_logic_net>
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Summary : Shared Memory Abstraction Library
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Description :
The MM library is a 2-layer abstraction library which simplifies the usage of shared memory between forked (and this way strongly related) processes under Unix platforms. On the first layer it hides all platform dependent implementation details (allocation and locking) when dealing with shared memory segments and on the second layer it provides a high-level malloc(3)- style API for a convenient and well known way to work with data-structures inside those shared memory segments.
The library is released under the term of an open-source (BSD-style) license because it\'s originally written for a proposed use inside next versions of the Apache webserver as a base library for providing shared memory pools to Apache modules (because currently Apache modules can only use heap-allocated memory which isn\'t shared accross the pre-forked server processes). The requirement actually comes from comprehensive modules like mod_ssl, mod_perl and mod_php which would benefit a lot from easy to use shared memory pools. Mostly all functionality (except for shared locks in addition to exclusive locks and multi-segment memory areas instead of single-segment memory areas) is already implemented and the library already works fine under FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris and should also adjust itself for most other Unix platforms with it\'s GNU Autoconf and GNU Libtool based configuration and compilation procedure.
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