Can shared_ptr release ownership of a pointer without destroy it?

From: Black Ice (yg-boost-users_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-09 21:12:14

As following manner:

shared_ptr<Foo> ptr(new Foo());
...
Foo * p = ptr.release();

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