Re: [Boost-Users] Can shared_ptr release ownership of a pointer without destroy it?

Black Ice wrote:

As following manner:

shared_ptr<Foo> ptr(new Foo()); ... Foo * p = ptr.release();

No, it cannot. If you want to release ownership, use auto_ptr. In general, you can't destroy the shared_ptr pointer yourself, since you don't know how the shared_ptr has been created.