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<h1 class="title">Introduction</h1>
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Shmop is an easy to use set of functions that allows PHP to read,
write, create and delete Unix shared memory segments.
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Versions of Windows previous to Windows 2000 do not support shared memory.
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In PHP 4.0.3, these functions were prefixed by <em>shm</em>
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