Re: [boost] call_once on win32

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.