Re: [Boost-users] Boost interprocess named mutexes

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost interprocess named mutexes
From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-16 03:50:43

Mike Spertus escribió:
> I am seeing the following problems with Boost  interprocess named 
> mutexes on Windows.

> 3. Although the documentation says that mutexes have process 
> persistence, they appear to have filesystem persistence. This means that 
> is a process or system crashes while the mutex is held, the mutex is 
> permanently unavailable (without deleting it).

The documentation says kernel or filesystem persistence for "named mutex":
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/doc/html/interprocess/some_basic_explanations.html#interprocess.some_basic_explanations.persistence

Best,

Ion