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From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-10 04:36:46


> The company I am working for is actually using timed rw mutex on a current
> project (and they seem to be working), so I for one would like them to
> stay in. I suspect timed locks aren't going to deadlock?

Unfortunately the test case that finally broken the camels back involves
timed locks on a read write mutex, and yes, timed locks can deadlock
especially if used in combination with non-timed locks (see
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/130787 for the original
message and test case). Of course this all refers to 1.33 I haven't tested
1.32.

John.


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