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C++ BOOST: windows shared memory get_size() returns zero

The below is from the official BOOST docs. Why do I always get size of zero when calling region.get_size() ? What am I doing wrong?

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{

  //Create a native windows shared memory object.
  windows_shared_memory shm (create_only, "MySharedMemory", read_write, 1000);

  //Map the whole shared memory in this process
  mapped_region region(shm, read_write);
  cout << "SIZE IS " << region.get_size() << endl;

return 0;
}
Solution

  • I think I got the answer: From boost docs:

    Native windows shared memory has also another limitation: a process can open and map the whole shared memory created by another process but it can't know which is the size of that memory. This limitation is imposed by the Windows API so the user must somehow transmit the size of the segment to processes opening the segment.