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## NAME
    _posixshmem - POSIX shared memory module

## MODULE REFERENCE
    <https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/_posixshmem.html>

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## FUNCTIONS
### shm_open
        Open a shared memory object.  Returns a file descriptor (integer).

### shm_unlink
        Remove a shared memory object (similar to unlink()).

        Remove a shared memory object name, and, once all processes  have  unmapped
        the object, de-allocates and destroys the contents of the associated memory
        region.

## FILE
    /usr/lib/python3.10/lib-dynload/_posixshmem.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so