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Concurrent C++03
Added in 1.35.0

Boost.Interprocess

Shared memory, memory mapped files, process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators.

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Boost.Interprocess

Boost.Interprocess simplifies the use of common interprocess communication and synchronization mechanisms and offers a wide range of them:

  • Shared memory.
  • Memory-mapped files.
  • Semaphores, mutexes, condition variables and upgradable mutex types to place them in shared memory and memory mapped files.
  • Named versions of those synchronization objects, similar to UNIX/Windows sem_open/CreateSemaphore API.
  • File locking.
  • Relative pointers.
  • Message queues.

Also offers higher-level interprocess mechanisms to dynamically allocate portions of a shared memory or a memory mapped file. Using these mechanisms, it offers useful tools to construct C++ objects, including STL-like containers, in shared memory and memory mapped files.

License

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.

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  • C++03
  • Header-only.

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