Re: [boost] [Review] Shmem

From: Martin Bonner (martin.bonner_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-07 04:45:30

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[mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Darren Cook Sent:
07 February 2006 08:06 To: boost_at_[hidden]
Subject: Re: [boost] [Review] Shmem

> 4. I didn't understand the first sentence in the limitations.html
> page: 
> 
> "Shmem wants to be portable across multiple operating systems so that
> it can not count with an operating systems that maps shared memory to
> the same base address in all processes in the system"
> 
> I think I'm stuck on "can not count with".

I strongly suspect the original author meant "... so that it cannot
count *on* an operating *system* that ...".  I would rewrite the whole
thing as:

"Shmem is designed to be portable across multiple operating systems.  As
such it cannot rely on the operating system mapping shared memory to the
same base address in each process."

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