On 2/25/06, Ion Gaztañaga <igaztanaga@gmail.com> wrote:
* Library name: Although Peter likes IPC, I agree with Rene agree that InterProcess is much more descriptive (and pronounceable) so I'm taking Boost.InterProcess (boost::interprocess namespace, boost/interprocess and libs/boost/interprocess directories). I think
namespace ipc = boost::interprocess;
will be common, though. It seems to be a bit too long. Although, I understand the desire to make the name more descriptive...
* Class names: mmapped_file -> mapped_file
named_xxx_object -> xxx_services so
shared_memory_services mapped_file_services heap_memory_services external_memory_services I don't like "services" much, especially the plural form. The object of this class would be number of services or a single service? And after all, this class is just more convenient and high-level interface to lower-level interfaces, so I don't think "services" is a good name. Maybe just leave "named_" prefix, but cut out the "_object" which doesn't add much information. Then you will have named_shared_memory named_mapped_file named_heap_memory etc.
-- Best regards, Zigmar