Segmentation fault (core dumped) while trying to write integers into Shared Memory in C

Question

I'm trying to use shared memory between processes. I'm just implementing the features step-by-step. I keep getting Segmentation fault (core dumped) while I try to write something into it.

int* ms; // Pointer for milliseconds
int* ns; // Pointer for nanoseconds

void checkArgs(int argc, char* argv[]);
void createSharedMem();
void createSharedMem()
{
    int shmid = shmget(KEY, sizeof(int)*128, IPC_CREAT |0666 );
    if(shmid < 0)
        printf("\n Error creating shared memory");
    ms = shmat(shmid, NULL,0);
    ns = shmat(shmid,NULL,0);
    *ms = 0;
    *ns = 0;
}


int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{

    checkArgs(argc,argv);
    createSharedMem();            

    *ms = 1;
    *ns = 1;

    printf("ms : %d ns : %d", *ms,*ns);

}

Answer 1

I found the problem. Instead of defining a key using #define KEY and using that in the shmget(), I used key_t to create a key variable. This fixed the problem of "Invalid argument"

Here's the updated code:

void createSharedMem()
{
    key_t key;
    int shmid = shmget(key, 4096, 0666 | IPC_CREAT);
    if(shmid < 0)
        perror("\n Error creating shared memory");
    ms = shmat(shmid, NULL,0);
    ns = shmat(shmid,NULL,0);
    *ms =0
    *ns=0;
    printf("%d",*ms);
}