Hi, I had sent this mail earlier, but that seems to have... disappeared. Am sending it again - hopefully there won't be duplicates. My Question: Is it possible to use boost interprocess' shared memory allocator with the normal STL containers that come with standard C++ build environments (gcc on Linux and Solaris, Visual C++ on Windows, etc.)? I know that there might be an issue with some STL containers not properly supporting encapsulated pointers in allocators that handle offset differences in memory addresses. Is this the reason why interprocess has its own containers? I apologize if this is a fairly basic question. But I think I may have hit a search blind-spot, and need some help getting out. Thanks in advance! Regards, Vishnu. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091