Re: [Boost-users] Thread question.... detecting deadlocks?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Thread question.... detecting deadlocks?
From: Anthony Williams (anthony.ajw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-09 03:41:31

"Eric J. Holtman" <eric_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Is there a way to turn on deadlock detection in the thread
> library somehow?  

There is no deadlock detection provided as part of boost.thread.

You can use external tools such as Intel Thread Checker to detect
deadlocks in code using Boost.Thread. Alternatively, deadlock detection
is provided as part of my commercial implementation of the C++0x thread
library (see sig).

Anthony
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