Re: [Boost-users] [Signals] Proposal effort for TR2

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-27 12:04:26

On Jul 27, 2005, at 11:35 AM, Russell Hind wrote:

> Doug Gregor wrote:
>>
>> We'll naturally be taking the good features from both libraries
>> (tracking, combining, syntax, etc.) and tossing out the bad (*ahem*
>> named slot groups). Interested Boosters are welcome to join us over in
>> that forum.
>>
>
> You probably don't want this question here, but would thread-safety by
> discussed for the proposal?  We couldn't use boost::signals because it
> wasn't thread-safe and ended-up using our own wrapper around
> boost::signals which made them thread-safe.

We can't write any standardese for thread safety (Standard C++ doesn't 
have threads... yet), but we'll try to be ensure that the interface can 
be implemented in a thread-safe manner and give advice for implementors 
regarding how to do it.

        Doug