Hi Chris,

Chris wrote:
> well, I start a main thread up to a certain point but don't want to
> continue until 2 other threads have finished executing some Init
> statements
[snip]
> How should I implement it then? not using recursive_mutex?

That sounds like a sync barrier will fit much better here.
http://boost.org/doc/libs/1_44_0/doc/html/thread/synchronization.html#thread.synchronization.barriers

Christopher.