My requirements are (currently) a little simpler that yours (the "clients" of the shared memory segment have read-only access for reading pre-cached data). Like many others I've grown tired of having to do this sort of thing manually!
Michael
I've also talked with Francis Andre who is also very interested in this library for his work. Although so far only two people consider this library interesting, I will present a proposal so that people can see what the library can do. I aim for a simple, small library, targeted for Visual 2003 .NET and gcc 3.4.1 for the moment. If the library is accepted, I will start a port to other systems. So if anyone is not against this, I will present a proposal shortly. First I have to read deeply all steps required for a first version. I am also tired of doing shared memory stuff by hand. Regards, Ion