NAME

grmd − graphics resource manager daemon

SYNOPSIS

grmd

DESCRIPTION

The grmd program manages shared resources among cooperating X Window System servers and Starbase processes or HP Windows/9000 processes.  The grmd receives requests from these client programs, processes the requests, and returns results to the clients.  The resources managed by the grmd include allocation of objects from a shared memory segment and from display frame buffer offscreen memory. 

Grmd is invoked automatically by the X Window System, Starbase processes, and HP Windows/9000 processes.  When invoked the grmd creates a shared memory segment and a semaphore during its initialization.  The grmd is installed to run as user daemon so that it may reliably remove the semaphore. 

The grmd communicates with its clients via a UNIX domain socket.  The grmd creates the socket in the directory /usr/spool/sockets. 

FILES

/usr/spool/sockets directory created to contain the grmd and other UNIX domain sockets

DEPENDENCIES

Implemented on the Series 300 and 800 only. 

AUTHOR

HP

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  HP-UX Release 8.0: Nov 1990