I'm resurrecting this topic:

because there is an unaddressed issue in it that I'm about to run into:

"... beware the pointee may be deleted if the last copy of the shared pointer

goes out of scope, as the raw pointer won't have incremented the reference count."

I cannot be the first person to run into this--a common issue when crossing an API boundary.  Has anyone come up with a good, safe solution wherein the reference count gets properly incremented?