[Boost-users] [Iostreams] Issue with mapped_file

28 Sep 2007

      Hello,

   There is something I don't get with mapped_file from the IOStreams 
library. Here is an example:

// Code snippet
#include <iostream>
#include 
#include 

using namespace boost::iostreams;

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
   if (argc != 2) return 1;

   try
   {
     stream  out;
     mapped_file_params p(argv[1]);
     p.new_file_size = 1024 * sizeof (char);
     out.open(mapped_file_sink(p));
   }
   catch (const std::exception &e)
   {
     std::cout << e.what() << std::endl;
     return 2;
   }

   return 0;
}
// Code snippet

When compiled, the execution goes like:
c:\>test_shmem somefile

c:\>test_shmem somefile
failed setting file size: The handle is invalid.

    I tried without the new_file_size, I tried with a mapped_file... Is 
there something I don't get? Why are we not able to open a file that 
already exist?

   Thanks for your help.

JD