Re: [boost] MT guarantees (was: RFC: Multithreading design constraints)

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-06-06 17:50:05

From: "Greg Colvin" <gcolvin_at_[hidden]>
As for deadlock detection, that takes cooperation from
> the underlying thread implementation, and is a poor substitute for
> prevention.

Seems to me that if we provide an API for threading, and clients agree not
to subvert it by using the underlying threading API directly, we could
detect deadlocks for them. No?

-Dave