Re: [boost] [interprocess] linux porting problems

From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-07 04:40:12

Daren Lee wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> I am having problems porting some boost::interprocess code from Win32 to Linux
> (rhel4). I am using boost-1.55.
> 
> Here's the setup: I need to find if there is an existing instance of the
> process already running. When the process starts up, it checks the shared
> memory for a bIsProcessingRunning flag. If it is true, the process dumps some
> data into the shared memory and then exits. If not true, then the process
> starts up normally and then checks the shared memory for any updates. The
> class I use to wrap the boost::interprocess is below.
> 
> Note: I needed the shared memory location to only be initialized the first
> time it was created so the only way I saw how to do it was through the src
> code was to use the initialization_func_t().
> 
> This approach works fine on Win32 but on Linux, it doesn't work.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions or hints.

Which version of Interprocess are you using, CVS version? And I suppose 
you meant Boost-1.35?

Regards,

Ion