Re: shm_open ENAMETOOLONG
Re: shm_open ENAMETOOLONG
- Subject: Re: shm_open ENAMETOOLONG
- From: "Shawn Erickson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:23:48 -0700
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Shawn Erickson <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:47 AM, <email@hidden> wrote:
>> I have been working on porting some POSIX C/C++ inhouse code to OS X and have run into a problem with shm_open. It looks like the size of SHM_NAME_MAX is 32 characters (noted on some older posts here). Because our code specifies a file using a path, name and PID, it usually exceeds this so I'm looking for any ideas to get around this problem. Any thoughts on how to do this (using good programming practices)?
>
> A 32 character long hash of the path, name and pid?
Oops clicked send while trying to move the window...
Anyway consider an md5 digest in hex form or if you can handshake
consider a UUID.
man 3 md5
man 3 UUID
-shawn
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