devel/libshbuf 0.0.3 DragonFly

libshbuf implements a new kind of IPC: the "shared buffer", a faster, more flexible replacement for standard Unix FIFOs. It offers the following advantages:

• Normally better latency and throughput
• Full access to the buffer at any time
• Connecting processes need not to be children of each other
• Arbitrary buffer lengths
• Memory mapped
• "Backlog"

The implementation is based on SysV shared memory, semaphores and message queues. It makes use of POSIX pthreads.