Opened 6 years ago
#12370 new Feature Requests
Make winapi_mutex_wrapper official
Reported by: | Owned by: | Ion Gaztañaga | |
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Milestone: | To Be Determined | Component: | interprocess |
Version: | Boost 1.61.0 | Severity: | Cosmetic |
Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
I couldn't find a reference in the documentation. The winapi_mutex_wrapper has some advantages over the named_mutex:
- + not file based; i.e. no chance of leaking files in case crash
- + no problem of singleton destruction order. We use 'remove' in our own singleton but that gives a problem being in 'atexit'
- - Win32 / Win64 specific
While portability is a good thing, we solely develop for Windows so the more handy Windows solution is ok. There is already a windows_shared_memory (which is also more handy than the portable shared_memory_object). Can't this one be promoted to official?
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