From 500ede01178a8063bb2a3c664172dffa1b40d7c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Iarygin Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 22:57:36 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] gh-89891: Refer SharedMemory implementation as POSIX (GH-104678) It only uses POSIX API. --- Doc/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.rst index 10d7f061fb7..933fd07d624 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