-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Robert Ramey

So, an attempt has been make sure that these functions get called at pre-execution time or when a DLL containing serialization code is loaded. The idea is that these will be invoked before multi-tasking is initiated thereby avoiding the race condition. I don't know if this has been achieved as it hard to figure out how to test it.

Hi, It appears that we are trying to solve a problem that is not all too different from thread-safe singletons. Maybe recasting this problem in that light can help (I'm not sure if you already have, just throwing it out there). Sohail