Hi Ryan,
My current project requires that my use of the shared memory segment that we're using be selectable with either select or poll, which in effect means that the segment (or portions of it) need to have file descriptor associated with it. I know of ways that I can hack this by sending the file descriptor outside of the shmem segment and maintaing a fake file for each portion of shmem that I need to access but I was wondering if you (or any other boost list members) know of a better way to do this using the boost::shmem functionality.
Shmem has get_shmem_OS_handle() function which returns a handle to the internal operating system shared memory handle (file descriptor in case of shared memory, and HANDLE type in Windows). I suppose (not sure about that, I haver never done that) that you can try to use select or poll with it. Regards, Ion