Re: [Boost-users] [interprocess] Memory mapped file based allocator

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [interprocess] Memory mapped file based allocator
From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-09 17:26:41

dhruva wrote:
> Hi,
>  I am looking for a memory mapped file based allocator that does not map the whole file into memory.
 > The size may be huge and I would not want to map all the contents 
into process memory.
 >Since my read and write access are sequential, I would like the 
mapping to happen on demand
 >(based on access violation trying to read an unmapped region of 
memory). Is there something
 >like that in Interprocess/Boost (since the implementation needs to 
work both on M$ and GNU/Linux)?

No there is not on-demand mapping based on access violation. That would 
be really difficult to implement.

> regards,
> dhruva

Regards,

Ion