From: Oleg Iarygin Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 19:57:36 +0000 (+0300) Subject: gh-89891: Refer SharedMemory implementation as POSIX (GH-104678) X-Git-Tag: v3.13.0a4~206 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=500ede01178a8063bb2a3c664172dffa1b40d7c9;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git gh-89891: Refer SharedMemory implementation as POSIX (GH-104678) It only uses POSIX API. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.rst index 10d7f061fb75..933fd07d6241 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