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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2009 IBM Corporation and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at 
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ * 
+ * Contributors:
+ *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
+ *     Silenio Quarti
+ *******************************************************************************/
+
+#ifndef ECLIPSE_SHM_H
+#define ECLIPSE_SHM_H
+
+/* Shared memory utilities */
+
+/**
+ * Creates and initializes a shared memory segment
+ * with the specified size in bytes. The id for the
+ * shared memory segment is stored in the id argument
+ * and can be used from any process. It must be freed
+ * with free().
+ *
+ * Returns 0 if success.
+ */
+extern int createSharedData(_TCHAR** id, int size);
+
+/**
+ * Destroy the shared memory segment specified by the
+ * id argument. The id is the same as the one return
+ * by createSharedData(). This function must be called
+ * by the same process that created the segment.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 if success.
+ */
+extern int destroySharedData(_TCHAR* id);
+
+/**
+ * Gets a copy of the shared memory segment specified
+ * by the id argument. The copy is stored in the data
+ * argument as a null terminated string and must be
+ * freed by free().
+ *
+ * Returns 0 if success.
+ */
+extern int getSharedData(_TCHAR* id, _TCHAR** data);
+
+/**
+ * Sets the shared memory segment specified by the id
+ * argument with a null terminated string specified by
+ * data.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 if sucess.
+ */
+extern int setSharedData(const _TCHAR* id, const _TCHAR* data);
+
+#endif /* ECLIPSE_SHM_H */
+
+