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shm: detail what SHM is

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Victor Berger 2017-02-22 19:36:52 +01:00
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src/shm/mod.rs
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//!
//! This module provides helpers to handle SHM-based buffers from wayland clients.
//!
//! SHM (Shared Memory) is the most basic way wayland clients can send content to
//! the compositor: by sending a file descriptor to some (likely RAM-backed) storage
//! containing the actual data. This helper handles for you most of the logic for
//! handling these file descriptor and accessing their contents as simple `&[u8]` slices.
//!
//! This module is heavily inspired from
//! [the similar helpers](https://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/tree/src/wayland-shm.c)
//! of the wayland C libraries.
//!
//! To use it, first add a `ShmGlobal` to your event loop, specifying the formats
//! you want to support (ARGB8888 and XRGB8888 are always considered as supported,
//! as specified by the wayland protocol) and obtain its `ShmGlobalToken`.
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//!
//! **Note**
//!
//! This handler makes itself safe regading the client providing a wring size for the memory pool
//! This handler makes itself safe regading the client providing a wrong size for the memory pool
//! by using a SIGBUS handler.
//!
//! If you are already using an handler for this signal, you probably don't want to use this handler.