Re: [boost] [pool] Conversion to Boost.Thread for singleton_pool

Subject: Re: [boost] [pool] Conversion to Boost.Thread for singleton_pool
From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-24 09:20:43

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On Friday 24 October 2008 09:01 am, Chris Newbold wrote:
> As an side, I'm curious why boost::mutex is implemented with
> basic_timed_mutex on Windows. It seems like there could be a dedicated
> mutex implementation using CriticalSection which, as far as I know, covers
> the Lockable concept.

TryEnterCriticalSection doesn't exist on windows 9x, and Lockable includes a 
try_lock() method.
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