id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 1867 Missing member functions in shared_mutex (win32) andysem@… Anthony Williams "The windows implementation of shared_mutex does not provide try_lock and try_lock_upgrade member functions, while pthread version does. I guess, the functions were simply forgotten to be implemented. The try_lock function can be a trivial wrapper on top of timed_lock. The try_lock_upgrade function is a bit more complicated and, AFAICT, a part of lock_upgrade can be extracted as try_lock_upgrade. " Bugs closed Boost 1.36.0 thread Boost 1.35.0 Problem fixed thread, shared_mutex, try_lock, try_lock_upgrade