Re: [boost] [interprocess] Atomic read and write.

Markus Schöpflin escribió:

Hello,

this may be a silly question, but I have been wondering what the atomic read and write primitives are actually supposed to do?

I mean, from the readers or writers POV a read or write is always atomic, isn't it? Am I missing something very obvious here?

In some architectures, a 32 read might not be atomic (even if the read is aligned). I think that Intel system is always atomic. They are there for completeness, to support systems where read or write might not be atomic.

Thanks, Markus

Regards, Ion