NAME

grmd − graphics resource manager daemon

SYNOPSIS

grmd

DESCRIPTION

The grmd program manages shared resources among cooperating X Window System servers and Starbase 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 and Starbase 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 700 only. 

AUTHOR

HP

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  HP-UX Release 9.0