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The nice aspect of the POSIX API is that shared memory looks very much
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appear somewhere in the file system. Typical locations for these files
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are <code class="code">/dev/shm</code> and <code class="code">/tmp</code>. The files have names like
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<code class="code">mempool_f7e8bdaa</code>, or generally <code class="code"><prefix>_<8hexdigits></code>. The prefix