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<concept xml:lang="en" id="GUID-A4ECB450-02DA-5E85-91AC-4C8BDE0B9B58"><title>Writing, Reading and Seeking from a Shared Memory</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody><p>Use the <xref href="GUID-4BABB86A-966A-3535-BD35-568338359825.dita"><apiname>write()</apiname></xref> function to write to shared memory </p> <p>Use the <xref href="GUID-99F32AF6-7248-37B7-901A-76FA23DBCD8A.dita"><apiname>read()</apiname></xref> function to read data from shared memory. </p> <p>Use the <xref href="GUID-84F93A85-9DD3-3D5A-98A7-769E6EDA77D1.dita"><apiname>lseek()</apiname></xref> function to set the file offset associated with a shared memory file descriptor </p> <p>Example: </p> <codeblock id="GUID-60F8E5BB-57F5-5520-A061-43D71436543D" xml:space="preserve">#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;

#include <sys/mman.h>

#include <fcntl.h>

#include <unistd.h>

#include <errno.h>

int main(void)

    {

    int fd; //File descriptor

    int ret = 0;

    if((fd = shm_open("page", O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666)) < 0)

        {

        printf("Shared memory creation failed with errno %d\n", errno);

        }

    else

        {

        printf("Shared memory creation was successful\n");

        }

    if((ret = write(fd, "symbian", 7)) < 0)

        {

        printf("Writing into shared memory failed with errno %d\n", errno);

        }

    else

        {

        printf("Writing into shared memory was successful\n");

        }

    if((ret = lseek(fd, -6, SEEK_END)) < 0)

        {

        printf("Seeking from end failed with errno %d\n", errno);

        }

    else

        {

        printf("lseek was successful\n");

        }

    char buf[7];

    if((ret = read(fd, (void*)buf, 6)) < 0)

        {

        printf("Reading from shared memory failed with errno %d\n", errno);

        }

    else

        {

        printf("Reading from shared memory was successful\n");

        printf("Buffer read = %s\n", buf);

        }

    close(fd);//closing the file descriptor

    if((ret = shm_unlink("page")) < 0) 

        {

        printf("Shared memory unlinking failed with errno %d\n", errno);

        }

    else

        {

        printf("Shared memory unlinking was successful\n");

        }

    return ret;

    }</codeblock> </conbody><related-links><link href="GUID-9AC6774A-41E9-5298-8696-0A317A09E1E9.dita"><linktext>Librt Overview</linktext> </link> <link href="GUID-BE70DCBF-366A-5054-B0F1-7FCEF45FC735.dita"><linktext>Creating and Unlinking a File

                Descriptor from a Shared Memory</linktext> </link> <link href="GUID-8F6D6934-8FF0-5045-8AB1-74384BE792EA.dita"><linktext>Retrieving Information about a