Sharing memory between processes through the use of mmap()

Is it possible to attach that region of memory to the server POST forking, after the client creates it?

MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_SHARED mapped memory can only be accessed by the process which does that mmap() call or its child processes. There is no way for another process to map the same memory because that memory can not be referred to from elsewhere since it is anonymous.

Using shm_open() call it is possible to create named shared memory which can be referred to and mapped by unrelated processes.

Just for anyone reading this question in 2018 and later. The solution is now to use memfd_create to create an anonymous file and use a unix socket to pass this file handle to the other process.

memfd_create is a linux only syscall