How to get Shared Object in Shared Memory

Question

Our app depends on an external, 3rd party-supplied configuration (including custom driving/decision making functions) loadable as .so file.

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Answer 1

I suppose the easiest option would be to use memory mapped file, what Neil has proposed already. If this option does not fill well, alternative is to could be to define dedicated allocator. Here is a good paper about it: Creating STL Containers in Shared Memory

There is also excellent Ion Gaztañaga's Boost.Interprocess library with shared_memory_object and related features. Ion has proposed the solution to the C++ standardization committee for future TR: Memory Mapped Files And Shared Memory For C++ what may indicate it's worth solution to consider.