AMDG V S P wrote:

I am storing database streams as associated string tag as std::map< std::string, boost::shared_ptr >

once in a while I need to remove a stream based on the tag,

so I do

//find stream based on tag //close stream s->close //call map.erase

can I expect that once I call map erase the destructor of the stream will get called?

You can expect the shared_ptr to be destroyed. Whether the stream is destroyed depends on whether there are any other shared_ptrs to it.

(for some reason I do not see my trace statement of the destructor, but the stream destruction are unfamiliar code to me.. so I may be just doing something wrong).

In Christ, Steven Watanabe