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From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-08 10:37:59
Anthony Williams wrote:
[...]
> I might well let the OS clean up such things on process termination, which is
> fine (assuming it does so), since these are all OS objects. Is that what you
> had in mind?
Not quite.
include <pthread.h>
pthread_t mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
int main() {
pthread_mutex_destroy(&mutex);
}
Is OK.
>
> However, our once_flag can store a result of a user-defined type, which may
> therefore require proper destruction, so that it can notify other processes,
> send network packets, write to a file, or whatever; this therefore needs
> dealing with somehow before process termination.
User would then call _destroy() or _reset() (the later is likely
to be called multiple times). I won't tell you "how". Trade secret.
regards,
alexander.
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