Manish Vachharajani escribió:
I've been happily using Boost.Interprocess to create shared memory regions under FreeBSD 7.2, however, I am having issues on FreeBSD 8.0 pre-release. I can reproduce the problem with Boost 1.39.0 and the svn trunk. The source of the problem appears to be that Boost.Interprocess calls lseek on a file descriptor returned by shm_open, but the results of such an lseek are undefined. Below, I explain further how I came to this conclusion.
You are right, it's undefined, but it usually works. However, I can't find a way to obtain the size of a shared memory segment using POSIX, if you could fin a way to do it it would be really nice.
I've confirmed that FreeBSD 7.2 allowed such seeks but 8.0 does not by looking at the kernel source code. For what it's worth AIX 6.1 does not allow such seeks either (see http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.ai...).
Interesting, maybe that's the reason this has not appeared sooner.
Could someone advise me on what the correct fix for this bug is? I'd be glad to implement it, but I'm not sure what the right fix ought to be.
No idea at all, maybe the fix is particular to each system, maybe we could open the segment as a normal file in the filesystem (if shared memory is mounted somewhere, I don't know if that's the case) and try to obtain its size. "ls" command displays the size, so there must be a why to obtain the size of a segment. Best, Ion