Re: [boost] [interprocess] Boost.Thread developers willing to help on interprocess condition vars?

From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-28 16:49:10

Anthony Williams wrote:
  > However, this would only work for unlocked mutexes --- a locked 
mutex would
> potentially remain locked, but with no clear owner, or it might be unlocked,
> depending on how the state was stored.

Well, leaving a mutex locked in a file does not seem a very good idea. 
That would indicate that the process that has acquired the mutex has 
died, so I would assume the mapped file is corrupted. If we can make 
this work for locked mutexes would be good enough IMHO.

Regards,

Ion