Re: [Boost-users] Re: Re: Re: Re: Leak when using boost threads underVC .NET using usi ng statically linked CRT

From: Roland Schwarz (roland.schwarz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-25 10:09:40

Stefan Shishkov wrote:

>I have a similar leak on Windows with the dll version of boost threads 1.32.
>Perhaps this is the same leak reported by gast128 in the thread "Memory leak
>reported using threads library". A mutex is created in DLLMain ->
>on_process_enter -> init_threadmon_mutex. It seems that this mutex is never
>deleted and there is no comments that this is intentional. On Windows the
>size of the mutex is 8 bytes and it creates a CRITICAL_SECTION in its
>constructor - 24 bytes.
>....
>
>  
>
Indeed this seems to be the same. The reason for it's existence however 
is the same as for the
documented one. Michael are you listening? I remember vaguely that 
Michael having found a way
to do without it. Am I remembering correctly?

Roland