Re: [Boost-users] [IPC Named Mutex]

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [IPC Named Mutex]
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-26 02:08:48

On 17/04/2015 02:10, Lorenzo Trivelli wrote:
> I'd also be glad to fix it by myself and so help boost developement,
> , but I do not completely  understand the usage of the system boot time...
> If boost needs in some way a tmestamp to differentiate things,
> in my opinion  there are plenty of them to use instead of the
> last boot time.
>
> Obviously it has been done for a reason, but I cannot understand why :-D

I'm not really all that familiar with Interprocess, but my understanding 
is that it uses the filesystem for some of its constructs (which I think 
is weird and wrong, and likely a side effect of having Posix origins, 
but that's a topic for another day).

Given that the failure was somewhere related to directory names, what's 
probably happening is that it's trying to find the name of its shared 
directory.  For that it evidently wants to use the boot time, as it's a 
value that should be identical for all processes started since the last 
reboot, but different between reboots (to avoid getting stale data).