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

From: Eugen Stoianovici (eugen.stoianovici_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-24 03:43:16

Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
> 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
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The sad part is that i can't use that name for the mutex even after a 
reboot. If i can't remove it through code, is there an os task that 
could do this?

Thanks,
Eugen Stoianovici