Crate mem_file

Provides a wrapper around native shared memory for Linux and Windows.

This crate is ideal if you need to share large amounts of data with another process purely through memory.

Examples

Creator based on examples/create.rs

//Create a MemFile at `pwd`\test.txt of size 4096
let mut mem_file: MemFile = match MemFile::create(PathBuf::from("test.txt"), 4096) {<...>};
//Set explicit scope for the lock (no need to call drop(shared_data))
{
    //Acquire write lock
    let mut shared_data = match mem_file.wlock_as_slice::<u8>() {<...>};
    let src = b"Some string you want to share\x00";
    //Write to the shared memory
    shared_data[0..src.len()].copy_from_slice(src);
}

Slave based on examples/open.rs

let mut mem_file: MemFile = match MemFile::open(PathBuf::from("test.txt")) {<...>};
//Set explicit scope for the lock (no need to call drop(shared_data))
{
    //Acquire read lock
    let mut shared_data = match mem_file.rlock_as_slice::<u8>() {<...>};
    //Print the content of the shared memory as chars
    for byte in &shared_data[0..256] {
        if *byte == 0 { break; }
        print!("{}", *byte as char);
    }
}

Structs

MemFile	Struct used to manipulate the shared memory
MemFileRLock	Non-exclusive read lock holding a reference to shared memory
MemFileRLockSlice	Non-exclusive read lock holding a reference to a slice of shared memory
MemFileWLock	Exclusive write lock holding a reference to shared memory
MemFileWLockSlice	Exclusive write lock holding a reference to a slice of shared memory

Traits

MemFileCast

Read WARNING before use