Changes for version 0.03 - 1998-11-19

  • changed shlock() and shunlock() to lock() and unlock(). old names were confusing. Old names remain but are deprecated.
  • added accessor methods for key, exclusive, etc.
  • added _initialize() method
  • added retry for EIDRM error when allocating additional segments
  • added version() method for use with per-process caches
  • moved segment state variable from semaphore to shared memory (it's faster)
  • modified documentation

Modules

Light-weight interface to shared memory