Re: [boost] [thread] ~mutex and BOOST_VERIFY

Subject: Re: [boost] [thread] ~mutex and BOOST_VERIFY
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-26 17:45:48

Le 26/05/13 22:28, Gaetano Mendola a écrit :
> Hi,
> I saw that the destructor of ~mutex doesn't have
> a BOOST_VERIFY anymore on the return value of
> pthread_mutex_destroy. From SVN logs I can see it was
> removed in the commit 75882 to manage the EINTR due
> to some bugged POSIX implementation.
> I will reintroduce the BOOST_VERIFY like this:
>
>
>         ~mutex()
>         {
>             int ret;
>             do
>             {
>                 ret = pthread_mutex_destroy(&m);
>             } while (ret == EINTR);
>             BOOST_VERIFY(!ret);
>         }
>
What do you want to verify?
> while we are at it consider the fact that for the
> same reason ~mutex needs to check for that EINTR
> return value the same should do timed_mutex.
yes, this could be done.