[Boost-users] [interprocess]Named mutex question

From: Eugen Stoianovici (eugen.stoianovici_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-22 08:59:36

Is there a way to free a mutex which was locked by a process that died?
I'm using a named mutex to synchronize access for some processes on a 
windows machine. One of those processes died while holding the mutex and 
now i can't get access to it (not even after killing every process that 
had any access to it). Is there a way to handle this situation through code?