Re: [Boost-users] Global mutex and boost.thread

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:57:14 -0300, Daher <dee@digitalthinker.org> wrote:

I need to perform disk activity to a shared file across multiple instances of my program... my program was originally written using windows API and I'm porting it to other systems. and I'm using boost.thread for my threads.. Any way to create a global mutex? on windows all you need to do is provide "Global\" Prefix to the mutex name.

I think you can simply use a global mutex object. Bruno