Re: [Boost-users] shared_ptr with custom free function

Phil Endecott wrote:

Dear Boost experts,

I have a C library that returns pointers to structs, and has special free functions that I must call to finalise and free these structs. Is there any way that I can create a shared_ptr that will call this special library free function when the last copy is destroyed?

Yes, there is: shared_ptr< blob > pb( create_blob(), free_blob );