► |  | The Racket Foreign Interface

1 | Overview
2 | Loading Foreign Libraries
3 | C Types
4 | Pointer Functions
5 | Derived Utilities
6 | Miscellaneous Support
7 | Unexported Primitive Functions
| Bibliography
| Index

▼ | 5 | Derived Utilities

5.1 | Safe Homogenous Vectors
5.2 | Safe C Vectors
5.3 | Tagged C Pointer Types
5.4 | Serializable C Struct Types
5.5 | Defining Bindings
5.6 | Allocation and Finalization
5.7 | Custodian Shutdown Registration
5.8 | Atomic Execution
5.9 | Speculatively Atomic Execution
5.10 | Process-Wide Registration
5.11 | Objective-C FFI
5.12 | Cocoa Foundation
5.13 | COM (Common Object Model)
5.14 | File Security-Guard Checks
5.15 | Windows API Helpers

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#### 5.10`` Process-Wide Registration

(require ffi/unsafe/global) | package: base

The ffi/unsafe/global library provides a utility registering information that spans all places in the Racket process.

Added in version 6.9.0.5 of package base.

> procedure (register-process-global key val) → cpointer?
> key : bytes?
> val : cpointer?

Gets or sets a value in a process-global table (i.e., shared across multiple places, if any).

If val is #f, the current mapping for key is reported.

If val is not #f, and no value has been installed for key, then the value is installed and #f is returned. If a value has already been installed, then no new value is installed and the old value is returned. The given val must not refer to garbage-collected memory.

This function is intended for infrequent use with a small number of keys.

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