See [online documentation](https://framagit.org/blaar/blc_channel/wikis/home)
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Functions to easily share data through shared memory (shm_... functions). The advantage is that it is the fastest and the more econom in memory ( no copy in each process ) way to share informtation between processes. At this moment in anly works in asynchronous mode.
The idea is that you hav ae structure blc_channel which is like a blc_array ( https://framagit.org/blaar/blc_core/blob/master/t_array/main.cpp ) but has a name starting with '/' to identificate it on your system.
Example
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For exemple you create a channel in one program to write data:
#Creating shared called '/my_channel_name', this program will write on it, it is char ('INT8') with no specific format ('NDEF') of dimension 1 (vector) of 32 elements.
-**t_channel_reader** reading each second the content of '/channel_example' and printing it.
-**t_channel_writer** waiting for the user to enter text and filing the channel '/channel_example' with this text. Each second the reader will print this text.
Press 'q' to quit.
Details
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The information about the properties of the blc_channels (type, format, sizes) is stored in a special file: '/tmp/blc_channels.txt'. You are not suppose to use it but you can check at anytime the status of the blc_channels using `./run.sh i_channels` in your blaar directory.
You will see all the existing blc_channels, the process reading or writing and the possibility to destroy channels.
On Linux we can see and manipulate a virtual file containing this memory in /run/shm/<nameofyoursharedmemory>, on OSX you cannot but anyway it is only used for debug.