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shmdt

Detach shared memory block.

Declaration

Source position: ipc.pp line 419

  function shmdt(shmaddr: pointer) : cint;

Description

shmdt detaches the shared memory at address shmaddr. This shared memory block is unavailable to the current process, until it is attached again by a call to shmat .

The function returns True if the memory block was detached successfully, False otherwise.

Errors

On error, False is returned, and IPCerror is set.

See also

Name Description
shmat Attach a shared memory block.
shmctl Perform control operations on a shared memory block.
shmget Return the ID of a shared memory block, possibly creating it