Re: [boost] Boost threadsafe singleton? - Inclusion in Boost

From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-24 18:26:30

Robert Ramey wrote:
> Michael Marcin wrote:
>   
>>> As I recall, the problem with the thread-safety of the serialization
>>> library relates to setting up the type info maps. If you could
>>> somehow create a way that one could invoke the setup of this map
>>> perhaps by a function call, that would solve the problem, yes?
>>>       
>
> Actually that's what happens now under the covers.  This
> occurs in a number of different places - each in its own way.
> This can be factored out into a common singleton implementation.
> Replacing this common one with a threadsafe version will
> make the serialization truely threadsafe.
>   
That sounds good. Will you let us know when you have something to look at?

Thanks,

Sohail