From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 20:35:43 +0000 (+0100) Subject: [3.12] gh-89891: Refer SharedMemory implementation as POSIX (GH-104678) (GH-114873) X-Git-Tag: v3.12.2~42 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8dcf4fbbad27d3a217851ce95a8474a7d0e6ec76;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [3.12] gh-89891: Refer SharedMemory implementation as POSIX (GH-104678) (GH-114873) It only uses POSIX API. (cherry picked from commit 500ede01178a8063bb2a3c664172dffa1b40d7c9) Co-authored-by: Oleg Iarygin --- diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.rst index 47af64578bd5..03b2fcc7c2af 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