Re: [Boost-users] shared_lock owner

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] shared_lock owner
From: Igor R (boost.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-04-09 05:43:35

> did shared_lock has a member like visual c++ critical_section's owner? i use
> shared_lock in a game server,
> it has several hundred threads. if has owner, it more easy resolve deadlock.

I guess you mean shared_mutex. No, it doesn't propagate such an
information to its interface.

(If your server is network-oriented, it's worth re-designing it to
take an advantage of the Proactor pattern (using Boost.Asio) -- this
way you'll get rid of most of these hundreds of threads, and most of
those (unnecessary) multithreading issues will disappear.)