Johan Nilsson wrote:

[cross-posting this to boost.threads.devel as I tried putting out a request for support there as well]

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As you said - the static thread_specific_ptr<> destructors are run after on_thread_exit for the main thread (actually, some of them before, and one of them after, which is even more confusing). Reading the comments in tss_pe.cpp, it seems to be a deliberate decision to run on_thread_exit from the main thread before the static destructors are run. Perhaps to be able to use static objects safely during "normal" thread exits?

Uh, sorry. Don't know what I was thinking here .. perhaps the result of debugging the problem for an extended amount of time. / Johan