Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Interprocess] int key and flat_multimap_index

From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-19 07:21:34

Robert Kubrick wrote:

>> You can't. Names must be unique because it should identify a unique 
>> named object. Otherwise, we wouldn't be capable to find an object 
>> correctly.
> 
> A subset of objects could have the same name, but each object would be 
> assigned to a unique slot in the segment. A multimap search on the 
> non-unique name would return an equal_range object.

But you couldn't erase an single object by name, something that some 
interprocess classes use internally. Sorry but named creation was built 
under the assumption of unique names.

Regards,

Ion