From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-13 14:34:10


> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
> [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] 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