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Home > Forums > Desktop Software > PC Operating Systems > Microsoft: Windows XP Pro Forum

windows equivalent of ipcs -m

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xwb (Programmer)
14 Oct 10 1:44
I have a program which uses shared memory in windows.  When the program crashes, how do I find out whether the shared memory is still allocated?  

On Linux, ipcs -m will show what is allocated and ipcrm will clear it.  How do I do this on XP?  Anything would be great, even if it is buried in some rarely used menu option in a rarely used Visual Studio utility.
BadBigBen (MIS)
14 Oct 10 8:16
In Windows there is no support for shared memory sections without a process holding a handle to them. afaik...

So there is no direct equivalent to ipcs -m.

 

Ben
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xwb (Programmer)
14 Oct 10 14:26
So if all the processes using the same area of shared memory die, then that area is automatically freed?
flyboytim (Programmer)
14 Oct 10 16:19
VMMap by Sysinternals may be of use, perhaps?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd535533.aspx
xwb (Programmer)
15 Oct 10 10:19
Looks like it might do the job - I'll check it out this evening.
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