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| <span class="firstname">Ion</span> <span class="surname">Gaztanaga</span> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess.html#interprocess.intro">Introduction</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess.html#interprocess.intro.introduction_building_interprocess">Building |
| Boost.Interprocess</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess.html#interprocess.intro.tested_compilers">Tested compilers</a></span></dt> |
| </dl></dd> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/quick_guide.html">Quick Guide for the Impatient</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/quick_guide.html#interprocess.quick_guide.qg_memory_pool">Using shared |
| memory as a pool of unnamed memory blocks</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/quick_guide.html#interprocess.quick_guide.qg_named_interprocess">Creating |
| named shared memory objects</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/quick_guide.html#interprocess.quick_guide.qg_offset_ptr">Using an offset |
| smart pointer for shared memory</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/quick_guide.html#interprocess.quick_guide.qg_interprocess_container">Creating |
| vectors in shared memory</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/quick_guide.html#interprocess.quick_guide.qg_interprocess_map">Creating |
| maps in shared memory</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/some_basic_explanations.html">Some basic explanations</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/some_basic_explanations.html#interprocess.some_basic_explanations.processes_and_threads">Processes |
| And Threads</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/some_basic_explanations.html#interprocess.some_basic_explanations.sharing_information">Sharing |
| information between processes</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/some_basic_explanations.html#interprocess.some_basic_explanations.persistence">Persistence |
| Of Interprocess Mechanisms</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/some_basic_explanations.html#interprocess.some_basic_explanations.names">Names Of |
| Interprocess Mechanisms</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/some_basic_explanations.html#interprocess.some_basic_explanations.constructors_destructors_and_resource_lifetime">Constructors, |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/some_basic_explanations.html#interprocess.some_basic_explanations.permissions">Permissions</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/sharedmemorybetweenprocesses.html">Sharing memory |
| between processes</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/sharedmemorybetweenprocesses.html#interprocess.sharedmemorybetweenprocesses.sharedmemory">Shared |
| memory</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/sharedmemorybetweenprocesses.html#interprocess.sharedmemorybetweenprocesses.mapped_file">Memory Mapped Files</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/sharedmemorybetweenprocesses.html#interprocess.sharedmemorybetweenprocesses.mapped_region">More About Mapped Regions</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/sharedmemorybetweenprocesses.html#interprocess.sharedmemorybetweenprocesses.mapped_region_object_limitations">Limitations When Constructing Objects In Mapped Regions</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/offset_ptr.html">Mapping Address Independent Pointer: offset_ptr</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/synchronization_mechanisms.html">Synchronization mechanisms</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/synchronization_mechanisms.html#interprocess.synchronization_mechanisms.synchronization_mechanisms_overview">Synchronization mechanisms overview</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/synchronization_mechanisms.html#interprocess.synchronization_mechanisms.mutexes">Mutexes</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/synchronization_mechanisms.html#interprocess.synchronization_mechanisms.conditions">Conditions</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/synchronization_mechanisms.html#interprocess.synchronization_mechanisms.semaphores">Semaphores</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/synchronization_mechanisms.html#interprocess.synchronization_mechanisms.upgradable_mutexes">Upgradable Mutexes</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/synchronization_mechanisms.html#interprocess.synchronization_mechanisms.lock_conversions">Lock Transfers Through Move Semantics</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/synchronization_mechanisms.html#interprocess.synchronization_mechanisms.file_lock">File Locks</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/synchronization_mechanisms.html#interprocess.synchronization_mechanisms.message_queue">Message Queue</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/managed_memory_segments.html">Managed Memory Segments</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/managed_memory_segments.html#interprocess.managed_memory_segments.making_ipc_easy">Making Interprocess Data Communication Easy</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/managed_memory_segments.html#interprocess.managed_memory_segments.managed_shared_memory">Managed Shared Memory</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/managed_memory_segments.html#interprocess.managed_memory_segments.managed_mapped_files">Managed Mapped File</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/managed_memory_segments.html#interprocess.managed_memory_segments.managed_memory_segment_features">Managed Memory Segment Features</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/allocators_containers.html">Allocators, containers and memory allocation algorithms</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/allocators_containers.html#interprocess.allocators_containers.allocator_introduction">Introduction to Interprocess allocators</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/allocators_containers.html#interprocess.allocators_containers.stl_allocators_segregated_storage">Segregated storage node allocators</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/allocators_containers.html#interprocess.allocators_containers.containers_explained">Interprocess and containers in managed memory segments</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/allocators_containers.html#interprocess.allocators_containers.additional_containers">Boost containers compatible with Boost.Interprocess</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/memory_algorithms.html">Memory allocation algorithms</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/memory_algorithms.html#interprocess.memory_algorithms.simple_seq_fit">simple_seq_fit: A simple shared memory management algorithm</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/memory_algorithms.html#interprocess.memory_algorithms.rbtree_best_fit">rbtree_best_fit: Best-fit logarithmic-time complexity allocation</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/streams.html">Direct iostream formatting: vectorstream and bufferstream</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/streams.html#interprocess.streams.vectorstream">Formatting directly in your character vector: vectorstream</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/streams.html#interprocess.streams.bufferstream">Formatting directly in your character buffer: bufferstream</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/interprocess_smart_ptr.html">Ownership smart pointers</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/interprocess_smart_ptr.html#interprocess.interprocess_smart_ptr.intrusive_ptr">Intrusive pointer</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/interprocess_smart_ptr.html#interprocess.interprocess_smart_ptr.scoped_ptr">Scoped pointer</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/interprocess_smart_ptr.html#interprocess.interprocess_smart_ptr.shared_ptr">Shared pointer and weak pointer</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/interprocess_smart_ptr.html#interprocess.interprocess_smart_ptr.unique_ptr">Unique pointer</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/architecture.html">Architecture and internals</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/architecture.html#interprocess.architecture.basic_guidelines">Basic guidelines</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/architecture.html#interprocess.architecture.architecture_algorithm_to_managed">From the memory algorithm to the managed segment</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/architecture.html#interprocess.architecture.allocators_containers">Allocators and containers</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/architecture.html#interprocess.architecture.performance">Performance of Boost.Interprocess</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/customizing_interprocess.html">Customizing Boost.Interprocess</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/customizing_interprocess.html#interprocess.customizing_interprocess.custom_interprocess_alloc">Writing a new shared memory allocation algorithm</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/customizing_interprocess.html#interprocess.customizing_interprocess.custom_allocators">Building custom STL compatible allocators for Boost.Interprocess</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/customizing_interprocess.html#interprocess.customizing_interprocess.custom_indexes">Building custom indexes</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/acknowledgements_notes.html">Acknowledgements, notes and links</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/acknowledgements_notes.html#interprocess.acknowledgements_notes.thanks_to">Thanks to...</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/acknowledgements_notes.html#interprocess.acknowledgements_notes.release_notes">Release Notes</a></span></dt> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess/acknowledgements_notes.html#interprocess.acknowledgements_notes.future_improvements">Future improvements...</a></span></dt> |
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| <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> |
| <a name="interprocess.intro"></a><a class="link" href="interprocess.html#interprocess.intro" title="Introduction">Introduction</a> |
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| <div class="toc"><dl> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="interprocess.html#interprocess.intro.introduction_building_interprocess">Building |
| Boost.Interprocess</a></span></dt> |
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| <p> |
| <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Interprocess</strong></span> simplifies the use of common |
| interprocess communication and synchronization mechanisms and offers a wide |
| range of them: |
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| <div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"> |
| <li class="listitem"> |
| Shared memory. |
| </li> |
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| Memory-mapped files. |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem"> |
| Semaphores, mutexes, condition variables and upgradable mutex types to |
| place them in shared memory and memory mapped files. |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem"> |
| Named versions of those synchronization objects, similar to UNIX/Windows |
| sem_open/CreateSemaphore API. |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem"> |
| File locking. |
| </li> |
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| Relative pointers. |
| </li> |
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| Message queues. |
| </li> |
| </ul></div> |
| <p> |
| <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Interprocess</strong></span> also offers higher-level |
| interprocess mechanisms to allocate dynamically portions of a shared memory |
| or a memory mapped file (in general, to allocate portions of a fixed size memory |
| segment). Using these mechanisms, <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Interprocess</strong></span> |
| offers useful tools to construct C++ objects, including STL-like containers, |
| in shared memory and memory mapped files: |
| </p> |
| <div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"> |
| <li class="listitem"> |
| Dynamic creation of anonymous and named objects in a shared memory or memory |
| mapped file. |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem"> |
| STL-like containers compatible with shared memory/memory-mapped files. |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem"> |
| STL-like allocators ready for shared memory/memory-mapped files implementing |
| several memory allocation patterns (like pooling). |
| </li> |
| </ul></div> |
| <div class="section"> |
| <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"> |
| <a name="interprocess.intro.introduction_building_interprocess"></a><a class="link" href="interprocess.html#interprocess.intro.introduction_building_interprocess" title="Building Boost.Interprocess">Building |
| Boost.Interprocess</a> |
| </h3></div></div></div> |
| <p> |
| There is no need to compile <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Interprocess</strong></span>, |
| since it's a header only library. Just include your Boost header directory |
| in your compiler include path. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Interprocess</strong></span> depends on <a href="http://www.boost.org/libs/date_time/" target="_top"><span class="bold"><strong>Boost.DateTime</strong></span></a>, which needs separate compilation. |
| However, the subset used by <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Interprocess</strong></span> |
| does not need any separate compilation so the user can define <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">BOOST_DATE_TIME_NO_LIB</span></code> to avoid Boost from |
| trying to automatically link the <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.DateTime</strong></span>. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| In POSIX systems, <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Interprocess</strong></span> uses |
| pthread system calls to implement classes like mutexes, condition variables, |
| etc... In some operating systems, these POSIX calls are implemented in separate |
| libraries that are not automatically linked by the compiler. For example, |
| in some Linux systems POSIX pthread functions are implemented in <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">librt</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">a</span></code> library, so you might need to add that |
| library when linking an executable or shared library that uses <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Interprocess</strong></span>. If you obtain linking errors related |
| to those pthread functions, please revise your system's documentation to |
| know which library implements them. |
| </p> |
| </div> |
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| <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"> |
| <a name="interprocess.intro.tested_compilers"></a><a class="link" href="interprocess.html#interprocess.intro.tested_compilers" title="Tested compilers">Tested compilers</a> |
| </h3></div></div></div> |
| <p> |
| <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Interprocess</strong></span> has been tested in the |
| following compilers/platforms: |
| </p> |
| <div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"> |
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| Visual 7.1 Windows XP |
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| Visual 8.0 Windows XP |
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| GCC 4.1.1 MinGW |
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| GCC 3.4.4 Cygwin |
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| Intel 9.1 Windows XP |
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| GCC 4.1.2 Linux |
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| GCC 3.4.3 Solaris 11 |
| </li> |
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| GCC 4.0 MacOs 10.4.1 |
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| </ul></div> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
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