Ian Cook created ARROW-17589: -------------------------------- Summary: [Docs] Clarify that C data interface is not strictly for within a single process Key: ARROW-17589 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-17589 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type: Improvement Components: Documentation Affects Versions: 9.0.0 Reporter: Ian Cook Assignee: Ian Cook Fix For: 10.0.0
The Arrow C data interface and C stream interface docs say that these interfaces are only for sharing data within a single process. This is not exactly correct. The fundamental requirement for using the C data interface and C stream interface is not that the components be necessarily running in the same process. It’s that they are able to pass around a pointer and access the same memory address space. Let's make some minor changes to the docs to clarify this. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)