On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Lorenzo Trivelli < trivelli.lorenzo@konvergence.it> wrote:

Hi to everyone, I'm experiencing a strange behaviour of named mutex on a windows 2008 machine. symptoms: when the system event log is empty, creation of named mutex fails with a boost::interprocess::interprocess:exception with msg boost::interprocess_exception::library_error. Now some data: 1) Boost 1.57.0 + stlport 5.2 2) VS 2005 3) Target Environment: Win 2008/32 3) after a night of code digging I managed to crete a small sample which raises the exception:

#include #include #include #include <iostream>

typedef boost::shared_ptrboost::interprocess::named_mutex safe_ipc_mx;

static safe_ipc_mx __mx; int main(void) { system("pause"); try { __mx = safe_ipc_mx(new boost::interprocess::named_mutex(boost::interprocess::open_or_create_t(),"JAEGER")); std::cout << std::endl << "Mutex created !" << std::endl; } catch(boost::interprocess::interprocess_exception const& e) { std::cout << std::endl << "Mutex creation error " << e.what() << " /" << e.get_error_code() << " /" << e.get_native_error(); } system("pause"); return 0;

}

I tried it also, and got the same result. I also tried with msvc-12.0, same result.

as far as I digged, it seems that the trouble is in the winapi::get_last_bootup_time(stamp) call in shared_dir_helpers.hpp, but up to now I had not been able to reproduce it on a machine with all the debugging tools installed

get_last_bootup_time() looks through the system event log for event ID == 6005 (event log started)...since the event log was cleared out, this is not found. I guess that is a bug in boost. One thing you could try...in interprocess's win32_api.hpp, there is another implementation of get_last_bootup_time() which uses WMI instead of the event log (there were warnings in the source about WMI not supporting hibernation/clock changes correctly, so beware). If you define BOOST_INTERPROCESS_BOOTSTAMP_IS_LASTBOOTUPTIME it should use that other version...give that a try. (in visual studio Project Properties -> C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definitions: add a semi colon ';' then the above item) That worked for me on windows 7. I submitted a pull request to automatically fallback to WMI if the event log started event isn't in the log. https://github.com/boostorg/interprocess/pull/18 Tom