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.
Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
- C++03
- Header-only.
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