"Roland Schwarz" <roland.schwarz@chello.at> wrote in message news:41A5F5B4.8040206@chello.at...
Stefan Shishkov wrote:
I have a similar leak on Windows with the dll version of boost threads 1.32. Perhaps this is the same leak reported by gast128 in the thread "Memory leak reported using threads library". A mutex is created in DLLMain -> on_process_enter -> init_threadmon_mutex. It seems that this mutex is never deleted and there is no comments that this is intentional. On Windows the size of the mutex is 8 bytes and it creates a CRITICAL_SECTION in its constructor - 24 bytes. ....
Indeed this seems to be the same. The reason for it's existence however is the same as for the documented one. Michael are you listening?
Yes, I am. I'm just back from several days of vacation, which is why I didn't reply before.
I remember vaguely that Michael having found a way to do without it. Am I remembering correctly?
I briefly had a solution that didn't use one, but rejected it as incorrect; the reasons are brought up in the comment starting at line 41 of tss_hooks.cpp. We should certainly look into deleting the mutex and fixing the leak. Mike