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shared_memory_extended

A user friendly crate that allows you to share memory between processes

1 unstable release

0.13.0 Jun 21, 2023

#148 in Windows APIs

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shared_memory_extended

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A crate that allows you to share memory between processes. Fork of elast0ny/shared_memory.

This crate provides lightweight wrappers around shared memory APIs in an OS agnostic way. It is intended to be used with it's sister crate raw_sync which provide simple primitves to synchronize access to the shared memory (Mutex, RwLock, Events, etc...).

raw_sync
crates.io docs.rs

Usage

For usage examples, see code located in examples/ :

Examples Description
event Shows the use of shared events through shared memory
mutex Shows the use of a shared mutex through shared memory

License

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Dependencies

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