Re: [Boost-users] Can boost::interprocess be somehow used to implement Solaris door functionality ?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Can boost::interprocess be somehow used to implement Solaris door functionality ?
From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-19 13:25:10

Kartik Mahajan wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have been using Solaris DOORS in my project which is now being ported 
> to Linux. I am extremely sorry if this is not the place to post this 
> thread but all I am asking is “ is there any boost library to make this 
> thing possible “.
> 
> I have downloaded boost 1.36 and there is this library called 
> boost::interprocess . Can it in anyway be used to implement functioning 
> similar to Solaris DOORS ?

It would be great to build something like DOORS above Interprocess, but 
I think it's quite difficult to build something like DOORS without 
kernel support, specially related to cleanup issues.

> Here is what I want to do:
> 
> *Process 1 passes arguments to process to using a function say 
> f1(arguments).. in Solaris it is called door_call. The function is 
> executed in the process2 and then return values returned. When this 
> happens, the process 1 returns*.

I think you would need to have a dedicated thread on a message queue or 
similar, for each process, but I'm not really an expert on DOORS so this 
could be too simple.

Regards,

Ion