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squadrickon Show HN: Shadesmar – Fast C++ IPC using shared memory

Yup

squadrickon A Day to Make a World of Difference

ThoughtSpot is making election days a paid-holiday for all employees on the day national general elections happen in their country.

squadrickon (Better) Interprocess Locks

HN thread of the previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21402594

squadrickon Robust Interprocess Locks

> That's not safe. PIDs are recycled.

Yup, didn't think of that possibility, thanks for pointing it out.

> You may (should?) be able to initialize a pthread-based PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED + PTHREAD_MUTEX_ROBUST mutex in a shared memory region and have everything just work.

Trying this now, I'll make another post if I can get it working. Thanks for the suggestion.