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[dignifiedquire]

Hey I am trying to understand some of the challenges around using shared memory in rust and found this crate through a rust-lang issue. Could you give me a short summary if there are known issues with this at the moment or not? thank you!

[asajeffrey]

Well, I'm not working on Rust at the moment, so this crate is unmaintained. The main issue with shared memory is that it's very difficult to stop it from being closed, so any read is unsafe, and it's difficult to see how to make it safe. If you assume that other processes don't do that, I think it's a safe abstraction. There might be a better trait for "data that has no layout requirements" these days.