From 199685a25b159d719546a9e3bb76353dac5e1081 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 12:44:50 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Graphics protocol: Add support for shared memory on Windows

---
 docs/graphics-protocol.rst | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/graphics-protocol.rst b/docs/graphics-protocol.rst
index 36e1f2375..c2259080f 100644
--- a/docs/graphics-protocol.rst
+++ b/docs/graphics-protocol.rst
@@ -226,8 +226,12 @@ Value of `t`          Meaning
                       is in a known temporary directory, such as :file:`/tmp`,
                       :file:`/dev/shm`, :file:`TMPDIR env var if present` and any platform
                       specific temporary directories.
-``s``                 A `POSIX shared memory object <http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/shm_overview.7.html>`_.
-                      The terminal emulator will delete it after reading the pixel data
+``s``                 A *shared memory object*, which on POSIX systems is a `POSIX shared memory object
+                      <http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/shm_overview.7.html>`_ and on Windows is a
+                      `Named shared memory object <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/creating-named-shared-memory>`_.
+                      The terminal emulator must read the data from the memory
+                      object and then unlink and close it on POSIX and just
+                      close it on Windows.
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