Re: [boost] [thread] Race condition(?) on tss_data

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-07 07:09:33

Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:

> It seems to me that thread_specific_ptr has a broken
> interface and documentation, since it doesnt address the local static
> thread-safety issue. Which leads users to use it erroneously.

Whether local statics are thread-safe is implementation dependent, and is 
not limited to thread_specific_ptr. _Any_ dynamically initialized local 
static can lead to the failure you described.