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The Rust adapter is the canonical API. SharedRegion lives in the core crate and exports directly for Rust projects.

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Installation

cargo add zinc-core
If you are developing against a local copy of Zinc: 
cargo add zinc-core --path /path/to/zinc/core

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SharedRegion

use zinc_core::SharedRegion;

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create

Creates a new region. The name must match [a-zA-Z0-9_-]+. The capacity must be a multiple of the system page size (typically 4096). 
let region = SharedRegion::create("my-data", 4096)?;
Returns Ok(SharedRegion) on success, or Err(ZincError).

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open

Opens an existing region by name. Validates the header magic and version. 
let region = SharedRegion::open("my-data")?;

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as_ptr

Returns a raw *mut u8 pointing to the data area (first byte after the 64-byte header). 
let ptr = region.as_ptr();
unsafe { *ptr = 42 };

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capacity

Returns the usable size in bytes. 
let cap = region.capacity();

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notify

Atomically increments the notification sequence counter and wakes all waiters. 
region.notify();

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wait

Blocks until the notification counter changes, or the timeout expires. 
match region.wait(1000) {
    Ok(()) => println!("data available"),
    Err(ZincError::TimedOut) => println!("no update within 1s"),
    Err(e) => eprintln!("error: {e}"),
}
Returns Ok(()) on notification, Err(ZincError::TimedOut) on timeout, or Err(ZincError) for other errors.

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Drop

Regions close automatically when SharedRegion drops. If the handle is the owner and no other handles are open, the shared memory segment gets unlinked. 
{
    let region = SharedRegion::create("temp", 4096)?;
    // region is active here
}
// region is closed and unlinked

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Example: producer-consumer

use zinc_core::SharedRegion;
use std::thread;
use std::time::Duration;

// Producer
let producer = thread::spawn(|| -> Result<(), zinc_core::ZincError> {
    let r = SharedRegion::create("pipeline", 65536)?;
    let ptr = r.as_ptr();
    for i in 0..10 {
        unsafe { std::ptr::write(ptr as *mut u64, i); }
        r.notify();
        thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(10));
    }
    Ok(())
});

// Consumer
let consumer = thread::spawn(|| -> Result<(), zinc_core::ZincError> {
    let r = SharedRegion::open("pipeline")?;
    let ptr = r.as_ptr() as *const u64;
    loop {
        match r.wait(5000) {
            Ok(()) => {
                let val = unsafe { std::ptr::read(ptr) };
                println!("received: {val}");
            }
            Err(zinc_core::ZincError::TimedOut) => break,
            Err(e) => return Err(e),
        }
    }
    Ok(())
});

producer.join().unwrap()?;
consumer.join().unwrap()?;

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Working with the header

RegionHeader is exported for advanced use but you rarely need it. It lives at the base of mapped memory and you can access it with unsafe pointer arithmetic. SharedRegion covers most use cases.