Hello everyone, The formal review of Ion Gaztañaga's Shmem library ended yesterday. I am pleased to announce that it was accepted into Boost! This library clearly generated a lot of interest from people since we got quite a few reviews. All of them were positive. During the discussion, some weaknesses in the library were found, and Ion has agreed to correct them. These include: - Improvements to the documentation and example code. - Clearer documentation on which header files to include for which objects. - Removing the 2-phase construction mechanism and replacing them with RAII-only constructors. - Adding !is_polymorphic static asserts when inserting an object into shared memory. Several difficult issues were raised during the review that will not be solved immediately. These include: - Security information about the shared memory object is currently avoided. - The synchronization objects have some weaknesses. Some of these weaknesses are related to the same weaknesses in Boost.Threads. - Memory mapped file regions are not separate from memory mapped files in the current implementation. - Multi-segment shared memory that would allow the shared memory object to grow. Perhaps these issues could be dealt with in a future version. Thank you, everyone, for the reviews and discussions about Shmem. This library should be extremely useful to those doing IPC. -Fred Bertsch