How to use shared memory with Linux in C

Question

I have a bit of an issue with one of my projects.

I have been trying to find a well documented example of using shared memory with fork() but to no suc

Answer 1

These are includes for using shared memory

#include
#include

int shmid;
int shmkey = 12222;//u can choose it as your choice

int main()
{
  //now your main starting
  shmid = shmget(shmkey,1024,IPC_CREAT);
  // 1024 = your preferred size for share memory
  // IPC_CREAT  its a flag to create shared memory

  //now attach a memory to this share memory
  char *shmpointer = shmat(shmid,NULL);

  //do your work with the shared memory 
  //read -write will be done with the *shmppointer
  //after your work is done deattach the pointer

  shmdt(&shmpointer, NULL);