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

From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-28 17:02:43

Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
> 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.

Correction: Support for *unlocked* mutexes would be good enough.

Regards,

Ion