bill_kempf (williamkempf@hotmail.com) wrote:

--- In Boost-Users@y..., Herve Blanc wrote:

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If not again, why and how do you deal with the problem then?

Use an external mutex to achieve the proper lock granularity. Herve, for further reading, I suggest Herb Sutter's books "Exceptional C++" and "More Exceptional C++". I think you'll find the section in MXC dealing with copy-on-write and thread-safety particularly enlightening.

-- Jim