[issue37754] alter size of segment using multiprocessing.shared_memory

2019-08-17 Thread Davin Potts
Davin Potts added the comment: Attempts to alter the size of a shared memory segment are met with a variety of different, nuanced behaviors on systems we want to support. I agree that it would be valuable to be able to effectively realloc a shared memory segment, which thankfully the user

[issue37754] alter size of segment using multiprocessing.shared_memory

2019-08-04 Thread Vinay Sharma
New submission from Vinay Sharma : Hi, I am opening this to discuss about some possible enhancements in the multiprocessing.shared_memory module. I have recently started using multiprocessing.shared_memory and realised that currently the module provides no functionality to alter the size of