Re: [boost] Windows event objects still considered harmful?

Robin Boerdijk wrote:

"if the sender causes [signals] the event before the receiver waits for it, the receiver will remain delayed until the next event is caused [signalled]".

But I struck this exact problem the other day with boost threads condition variables. Both notify_one() & notify_all() have no effect if there are no threads waiting: http://boost.org/doc/html/condition.html - Chris Byrne