RE: Shared memory keys on Solaris 8

Patrik Sternudd <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.sun
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Just exactly what info were you looking for?

The datatype for a key is a key_t (from sys/types.h)...IIRC, it
is 32 bits in most Unix systems.

A search for shmget (which is one of the syscalls involved) yields the
following result:
http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-0626/6j9vgh69h?q=shmget&a=view

Then you have shmctl, and so on...

I seem to recall a pretty good tutorial that's been available for some
time now. It should cover most aspects on IPC programming:
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/ipc/

Hmm. Are anyone aware of any serious security implications when using shared
memory?
(except the obvious parts of setting the permissions correct :))

Hope this helps,

Patrik Sternudd


-----Original Message-----
From: Sayek, Ogan [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 8:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Shared memory keys on Solaris 8


I looked in docs.sun.com but I couldn't find what I was looking for? 
Does anyone have any info on shared memory keys? 
thanks

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OGAN SAYEK 
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Towson University 
Computing and Network Services (CANS) 
Email: [email protected] 
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