raw_sync

Lightweight wrapper around OS synchronization primitives


Keywords
memory, inter-process, shared, shmem, process
Licenses
MIT/Apache-2.0

Documentation

raw_sync

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This crate is provides a lightweight wrapper around OS synchronization primitives.

It was mainly developed to be used with the shared_memory crate for when cross-process synchronization is required through shared memory.

Features

Locks

Feature Description Linux Windows
Mutex Mutually exclusive lock ✔ ✔
RwLock Exclusive write/shared read ✔ X

Events

Feature Description Linux Windows
Event Generic event : pthread_cond on Unix and Event Objects on windows. ✔ ✔
BusyEvent Busy event implemented by polling a byte in a loop ✔ ✔
EventFd Linux specific event type TODO N/A

License

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.