Chris Thomasson wrote:
... I understand that Boost has a problem with it's current rw-mutex?
While being very glad, that a lot of valuable discussion is taking place to provide a working rw-mutex, I am missing an answer to an urgent question: What shall be done about 1.34? Whichever rw-mutex we will adopt, this likely will not happen before 1.35. Since I did not have the time to study the proposed algorithms, I am currently only in the role of the cleaning crew, to get Boost.Thread ready for 1.34. Since I did not find a summary and final outcome of the discussion, I'll restate my question (as beeing asked by the release manager): Shall we drop rw-mutex (including doc) from 1.34? This also has been done in 1.33 already, to avoid exposing the user from a known broken implementation. As an option we could 1) leave the broken rw mutex in the 1.34, but put a big fat warning 2) provide a new algorithm, also with a warning. 1) doesn't sound very attractive, 2) possibly will delay 1.34 release date even further. Please give me your feedback. Roland (aka. speedsnail)