[boost] [interprocess] message_queue hangs when another process dies

From: Sergei Politov (spolitov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-10 03:13:22

Ion Gaztañaga <igaztanaga <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Sadly, Interproces message queues are built above interprocess_mutex and 
> interprocess_condition and they don't support process termination. It's 
> not a bug, because they never tried to be termination-safe, but if you 
> have an idea on how to do that without kernel support, I'm glad if you 
> could help. In windows shared memory is emulated with mapped files, so 
> it's possible that the mapped file will get corrupted if you kill processes.
> 
Why we cannot use named mutexes, that is available in windows?

Also I will be glad to hear any suggestions about replacements for message_queue.

Best Regards,
  Sergei