Re: [boost] [future|interprocess] Could futures live in shared memory and synchronize process?

Subject: Re: [boost] [future|interprocess] Could futures live in shared memory and synchronize process?
From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-17 12:56:38

vicente.botet wrote:
>> However, I can find useful a future returning "int", just because main 
>> returns int and a process could spawn other processes and obtain futures 
>> to them (Boost.Process child is a an example of this approach). 
> 
> Yes, I see but the future needed in this case will be internal to the spawning process, isnt't it?

Yes, ownership of thread futures can be passed to other threads but I 
don't see this useful/possible for processes, we could duplicate process 
handles, but I don't see handles could be sharable. Maybe PIDs might be 
placed in shared memory and futures could be made of them.

Regards,

Ion