Ross MacGregor <gordonrossmacgregor <at> gmail.com> writes:
Sergei Politov <spolitov <at> gmail.com> writes:
[interprocess] message_queue hangs when another process dies
Suppose we have 2 processes, one sends messages to queue, another reads them. When reading process dies (for instance using End process) during message_queue.receive the another process hangs in send.
I am wondering if there isn't a fairly simple solution. It wouldn't be perfect but would be far better behavior than we have now.
Just an update for everyone. Back in September, I worked with Ion to get a configurable timeout feature built into interprocess_mutex. It will throw a new timeout exception if locked for more than a set period of time (configurable at compile time). This will fix the issue of message_queue and interprocess_condition hanging up on termination of the dependent process. Hopefully this feature will be available in Boost 1.48.