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Subject: What is the point of IPC_PRIVATE of shmget?
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Hi,

I don't get the point of IPC_PRIVATE of shmget(). Since it is just
used by the current process, why not just use malloc?

Can anybody give a real example in which IPC_PRIVATE must be used, but
 malloc or other variant of *alloc functions are not appropriate to
use? Thanks.

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Regards,
Peng