From 3c30de1172422c4081eb3757fad80b5d2f72b566 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 21:35:29 +0100 Subject: [3.11] gh-89891: Refer SharedMemory implementation as POSIX (GH-104678) (GH-114874) It only uses POSIX API. (cherry picked from commit 500ede01178a8063bb2a3c664172dffa1b40d7c9) Co-authored-by: Oleg Iarygin --- Doc/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.rst index 47af645..03b2fcc 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.rst @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ processes, a :class:`~multiprocessing.managers.BaseManager` subclass, :class:`~multiprocessing.managers.SharedMemoryManager`, is also provided in the :mod:`multiprocessing.managers` module. -In this module, shared memory refers to "System V style" shared memory blocks +In this module, shared memory refers to "POSIX style" shared memory blocks (though is not necessarily implemented explicitly as such) and does not refer to "distributed shared memory". This style of shared memory permits distinct processes to potentially read and write to a common (or shared) region of -- cgit v0.12