Ion Gaztanaga wrote:

Mike Spertus escribió:

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I am seeing the following problems with Boost interprocess named mutexes on Windows.

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3. Although the documentation says that mutexes have process persistence, they appear to have filesystem persistence. This means that is a process or system crashes while the mutex is held, the mutex is permanently unavailable (without deleting it).

The documentation says kernel or filesystem persistence for "named mutex": http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/doc/html/interprocess/some_basic_explan...

Hi Ion, Sorry, I misread that doc page. You are of course correct. What do you think of my suggestion to use a Windows mutex to back a boost interprocess named mutex? Since "abandoned Windows mutexes" are automatically released by Windows, we see substantially fewer hangs when we use Windows mutexes. Thanks, Mike

Best,

Ion