id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
6710,Boost Containers Using interprocess Basic_strings Need external temporaries,jdy@…,Ion Gaztañaga,"When using an interprocess basic string such as:
typedef boost::interprocess::allocator<
        char,
        boost::interprocess::managed_mapped_file::segment_manager
  >                                         char_allocator_t;

typedef boost::interprocess::basic_string<
        char, 
        std::char_traits<char>,
        char_allocator_t
  >                                      key_type;

map, flat_map (and unordered_map) all require that one have an externally created temporary of that type (key_type) created that can temporarily hold the results of a std::string or char*.  This requires code of the form:

      // A temporary string that allocates from the mapped file
      struct shm_clean { // cleanup shared memory on stack-unwind
        shm_clean() { 
          boost::interprocess::shared_memory_object::remove(""StupidSharedMemory"");
        }
        ~shm_clean() {
          boost::interprocess::shared_memory_object::remove(""StupidSharedMemory"");
        }
      } cleaner;
      boost::interprocess::managed_shared_memory
stupid(boost::interprocess::create_only ,""StupidSharedMemory"" ,500);
      key_type key_val(stupid.get_segment_manager());

mymap_in_shared_memory[key_val = mystring.c_str()] = junk;

This is barely ok when we are working with mutable memory regions, but when I am working in a read-only memory map, it is annoying.

Please see this thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/228874

Bug posted at request of Ion Gaztañaga

Joel",Feature Requests,new,To Be Determined,container,Boost 1.49.0,Problem,,"interprocess, container, map, flat_map, unordered_map",igaztanaga@… jdy@…