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=item shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE

=item shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE

Reads or writes the System V shared memory segment ID starting at
position POS for size SIZE by attaching to it, copying in/out, and
detaching from it.  When reading, VAR must be a variable that will
hold the data read.  When writing, if STRING is too long, only SIZE
bytes are used; if STRING is too short, nulls are written to fill out
SIZE bytes.  Return true if successful, or false if there is an error.
shmread() taints the variable. See also L<perlipc/"SysV IPC">,
C<IPC::SysV> documentation, and the C<IPC::Shareable> module from CPAN.

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