[libvirt-users] method for communication between containers

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 05:55:57AM +0000, WANG Cheng D wrote:
> Dear Daniel,
> As you know, following your suggestion, I can expose shared memory to
> two containers hosted by the same machine, thus the two containers can
> exchange data. Now I have a new problem: how does the containers avoid
> concurrent accesses to the shared memory? In a native system, this can
> be achieved by using semaphore. But I don't know how the two containers
> can see the same semaphore. Do I need to design a mechanism to control
> the access to the shared memory?

Correct, there's no way to share semaphores. Since you hav shared
memory though, can you use a POSIX process shared mutex that is
allocated in that shared memory block.

Regards,
Daniel
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