https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/12370 <p> I couldn't find a reference in the documentation. The winapi_mutex_wrapper has some advantages over the named_mutex: </p> <ul><li>+ not file based; i.e. no chance of leaking files in case crash </li><li>+ no problem of singleton destruction order. We use 'remove' in our own singleton but that gives a problem being in 'atexit' </li><li>- Win32 / Win64 specific </li></ul><p> 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? </p> en-us /htdocs/site/boost.png https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/12370 Trac 1.4.3