NAME

ACE_Shared_Memory - This base class adapts both System V shared memory and "BSD" mmap to a common API.

SYNOPSIS

#include <ace/Shared_Memory.h>

class ACE_Shared_Memory { public: virtual ~ACE_Shared_Memory (void); virtual int close (void) = 0; virtual int remove (void) = 0; virtual void *malloc (size_t = 0) = 0; virtual int free (void *p) = 0; virtual int get_segment_size (void) const = 0; virtual ACE_HANDLE get_id (void) const = 0; };

DESCRIPTION

This is a very simple-minded wrapper, i.e., it really is only useful for allocating large contiguous chunks of shared memory. For a much more sophisticated version, please check out the ACE_Malloc class.

Note that all the following methods are pure virtual.

virtual int close (void) = 0;

virtual int remove (void) = 0;

virtual void *malloc (size_t = 0) = 0;

virtual int free (void *p) = 0;

virtual int get_segment_size (void) const = 0;

virtual ACE_HANDLE get_id (void) const = 0;

AUTHOR

Doug Schmidt

LIBRARY

ace