Re: Shared Memory Functions

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:33:09PM -0400, Ilia Alshanestky wrote: > I recently needed to write a C daemon that needed to communicate with PHP via the use of Shared > Memory. > PHP 4.0 already has SYSV shared memory functions shm_*. Unfortunately, what I had found, was > that although the functions work well inside PHP there is no documentation about the header that is > added to the shared memory segment and the format used to store php variables. This effectively > prevents people from easily writing external programs in other languages such as C that can > communicate with PHP via the use of shared memory (sysv shm). So, I wrote a more general set of > shared memory functions for PHP, this extension allows for extremely easy use of shm via the use of > functions such as > shmopen(); > shmread(); > shmwrite(); > shmdelete(); > shmclose(); > > Basically a very simple shm interface, which I hope is much better suited implementation for a > large number of imaginable situations where shm would be used. I would like to submit this extension > to the (?main php cvs tree?) because I believe it may be useful to the large number of people. How > would I go about submitting code to the php cvs tree? Oh, I know the original code contributor of the shared memory functions. But I don't know his current e-mail address. It is Christian Cartus and I can see him sometimes in my office. -Egon -- http://www.linuxtag.de/ http://php.net/books.php http://www.concert-band.de/