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Subject: Re: Maintaining status tables across restart 
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Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 18:09:14 -0700
From: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU>
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>For maximum portability, you don't want to have shared data structures 
>containing address pointers - all processes don't necessarily map the memory 
>to the same virtual address.

You store whatever it is that the shared memory library is using as an
access handle (a.k.a., a shared memory pointer).  The only thing that
will ever use it is the status module, whether that be for snmp or web
queries, and it will have to use the shared memory library to map the
handle to a read-only memory address.

....Roy