The Old New Thing

You can use a file as a synchronization object, too

September 5, 2014 Sep 5, 2014 09/5/14

Raymond Chen

A customer was looking for a synchronization object that had the following properties: Can be placed in a memory-mapped file. Can be used by multiple processes simultaneously. Bonus if it can even be used by different machines simultaneously. Does not leak resources if the file is deleted. It turns out there is already a ...