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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] shared memory segments
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To: "Jorge Ramirez Ortiz, HCL Europe" <Jorge.Ramirez-Ortiz@hcl.com>
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On 07/09/2012 07:55 PM, Jorge Ramirez Ortiz, HCL Europe wrote:
> hi Gilles Not sure I understand now. Let's say that I also need to
> place a mutex on that shared region to be shared between other
> Xenomai applications. The mutex would obviusly be wrapped by the
> posix skin but not the system5 shared request. Would that work?? 
> thanks for all the help

Yes, it should work. What is hard to get right however is synchronizing
the various processes accessing the shared region so that
pthread_mutex_init is called once and only once.

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                                                                Gilles.