Re: [Boost-users] [interprocess]Named mutex question

From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-23 14:07:21

Eugen Stoianovici wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, not for the moment. I'll need to think about an explicit unlock 
operation for some synchronization mechanisms for Boost 1.37.

Ion