Hi, Thanks for your detailed explanations. I was paying with your nice example. Currently my structure is keeping only several floats, ints and unsigned ints. Following the Interprocess documentation, as you wrote, I can put them directly into shared memory: server_side: P.insert(particleID(0,0)); P.insert(particleID(-1,1)); P.insert(particleID(-2,2)); P.insert(particleID(-3,3)); try{ //Erase previous shared memory shared_memory_object::remove("shared_memory"); //Create a shared memory object. shared_memory_object shm (create_only, "shared_memory", read_write); //Set size size_t P_len=P.size()*sizeof(particleID); shm.truncate(P_len); //Map the whole shared memory in this process mapped_region region(shm, read_write); //Write all the memory to 1 std::memset(region.get_address(), 1, region.get_size()); print_out_by<ID>(P); boost::xtime xt; boost::xtime_get(&xt, boost::TIME_UTC); xt.sec += 100; for(;;)boost::thread::sleep(xt); } catch(interprocess_exception &ex){ shared_memory_object::remove("shared_memory"); std::cout << ex.what() << std::endl; return 1; } Now I am trying to access the memory from client: shared_memory_object shm (open_only, "shared_memory", read_only); //Map the whole shared memory in this process mapped_region region(shm, read_only); //Check that memory was initialized to 1 const particlesID_set *P = static_cast(region.get_address()); //const particlesID_set::nth_index<1>::type L1_ID_index = (*P).get<1>();// This does not compile, Why? print_out_by<ID>((*P)); //This cannot access the memory... In Client I cannot get the index, it claims that cannot access to protected member. Maybe I am missing something?Could you please advice me? kind regards Arman. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Joaquin M Lopez Munoz wrote:

arm2arm writes:

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Hello, I would like to load multiindex container by one process lets say serverside_loader. And access that array by another clientside_analyser process? How to do that?

Hi Arman,

Yes, this can be done. There's an example that shows you how to do it:

http://www.boost.org/libs/multi_index/doc/examples.html#example12

Basically, you've got to take care of three things:

* The element type (particleID in this case) must be placeable in shared memory, see

http://tinyurl.com/ygau74j

for info on the limitations imposed on such objects. particleID is a simple class and can be directly put in shared memory. * You must use a special Boost.Interprocess allocator for the multi-index container. Use the aforementioned example as a guide. * Access to the container must be properly synchronized, just as you'd do for instance in a multi-threaded program.

Good luck with your project, come back if you have some difficulty.

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Nice!!! Thank you for help!! The example 12 is fitting exactly to my requirements. The MultiIndex great library thanks for inventing that.:) Arman. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:24 AM, wrote:

Arman Khalatyan escribió:

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Hi, Thanks for your detailed explanations. I was paying with your nice example. Currently my structure is keeping only several floats, ints and unsigned ints. Following the Interprocess documentation, as you wrote, I can put them directly into shared memory:

[...]

Now I am trying to access the memory from client: shared_memory_object shm (open_only, "shared_memory", read_only);

//Map the whole shared memory in this process mapped_region region(shm, read_only);

//Check that memory was initialized to 1 const particlesID_set *P = static_cast(region.get_address());

//const particlesID_set::nth_index<1>::type L1_ID_index = (*P).get<1>();// This does not compile, Why?

It is

const particlesID_set::nth_index<1>::type& L1_ID_index = ...

Note the added '&'; this is explained for instance at the final paragraph of

http://www.boost.org/libs/multi_index/doc/tutorial/basics.html#multiple_sort

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