You might want to look at the new Boot.Interprocess library (previously known as shmem).<br><br>Tony<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daher</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:dee@digitalthinker.org">
dee@digitalthinker.org</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I need to perform disk activity to a shared file across multiple
<br>instances of my program... my program was originally written using<br>windows API and I'm porting it to other systems. and I'm using<br>boost.thread for my threads.. Any way to create a global mutex? on<br>windows all you need to do is provide &quot;Global\&quot; Prefix to the mutex name.
<br><br>Any ideas will be appreciated.<br><br>Thanks in advanced.<br>Dee<br>_______________________________________________<br>Boost-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Boost-users@lists.boost.org">Boost-users@lists.boost.org
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