Jon Biggar said: > There is actually one case that needs a semaphore that has no reasonable > alternative in pthreads. The only pthread synchronization operation > that is asynch-reentrant safe (i.e. can be called from a signal handler) > is signaling a pthread semaphore. > > It would be nice if there was some abstraction available in boost > threads that used this mechanism internally to get the needed behavior, > but encapsulated to hide the error-proneness of a raw semaphore.
The problem is that both your problem case and your solution are POSIX specific. I can't envision an interface that would be both portable and usable on other platforms. Provide one and I'll certainly consider it. -- William E. Kempf _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
