On Sep 8, 2005, at 6:45 AM, John Maddock wrote:
I've been trying to solve the deadlock problem reported here: http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2005/08/92307.php but I've simply run into more and more problems, and just about every operation I've
Howard Hinnant wrote: tried will deadlock if you try hard enough.
THIS IS NOT GOOD.
I can add that I have run across this bug in the wild. We were using read_write_mutex in some code, and we started seeing several threads locking up waiting on either a read lock or a write lock when the application was under load. There was no reason I could see that at least one thread couldn't make progress. I changed to a normal mutex and the problem went away. -- Timothy Ritchey Chief Technical Officer Paragent, LLC 1317 West Marsh Street Muncie, IN 47306 (765) 285-4913