Look into using POSIX shared memory via shm_open and shm_unlink... I personally feel they are easier to use and more straight-forward than the older System-V IPC calls such as shmget, etc. since the handle returned works exactly like a file-descriptor that you can use with calls like read, write, etc. Otherwise, if you want access the shared memory object represented by the file-descriptor via normal pointers, you can use mmap on the file-descriptor returned by shm_open.
