Great. At least I can ensure that my processes won't colide. Since nobody else will be using the files generated by my processes, I'm safe.<br><br>Now, I can focus on the second part of my post: How can I lower the priority of a thread created by boost::thread.<br><br>Thanks again,<br><br>++Hector C.<br><br><b><i>Delfin Rojas &lt;drojas@moodlogic.com&gt;</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> &gt; Calderon Hector wrote<br>&gt; <br>&gt; Yep, 'across processes' is a better description than 'system-wide'<br>&gt; <br>Well, there is no boost library for synchronization between processes yet.<br>However there is a new library that has just been accepted and it seems to<br>provide inter-process mutexes but I am not familiar with it. You can take a<br>look at the aproval summary at<br>http://lists.boost.org/boost-announce/2006/02/0083.php  and go to the<br>previous message in that thread for a link to
 the library files.<br><br>Good luck,<br><br>-delfin<br></blockquote><BR><BR>----------------------------------<p>
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