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[Andreas Ericsson]

Doug Veldhuisen wrote:
> 
> Most Linux distros, I am aware anyway, support share memory segments.  the
> How about a mechanism, supported by Nagios of course, where we could 
> save some variables to a shared memory segment.  Saving and retrieving 
> should be pretty quick.
> 

Bad idea since Nagios also runs on HPUX, Irix, Solaris, Sunos, *BSD and 
a number of other systems. Handling the differences between how shared 
memory segments are implemented or the lack of such a mechanism among 
all the different systems would be maintenance nightmare both for Nagios 
and the plugins.

That aside, most of the plugins that would actually require this feature 
at the moment are written in perl, shell or python, where low-level 
things like memory mapping isn't always supported and never exactly 
straight-forward.

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