Re: [boost] [thread] ~condition_variable_any verifications

Subject: Re: [boost] [thread] ~condition_variable_any verifications
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-02-22 12:41:59

Le 22/02/13 17:17, Tim Blechmann a écrit :
> hi,
>
> one of my project uses exit() to terminate the program. this is
> sometimes called while some threads are waiting on a global
> condition_variable_any.
>
> when calling exit(), this global variable is destroyed while other
> threads are still waiting on it, which causes BOOST_VERIFY to fire an
> assertion failure !pthread_cond_destroy(&cond). this scares the hell out
> of my users.
>
> i know that these verifications can be really useful in many case, but
> in my use case, it makes exit() rather unusable, and i'd have to
> redesign some of the internal logic to avoid this assertion failure.
>
> thoughts?

Which alternative behavior would you expect?

Best,
Vicente