Subj : Re: Can C++ local static objects be made thread safe? To : comp.programming.threads From : Alexander Terekhov Date : Wed Feb 16 2005 06:52 pm gottlobfrege@gmail.com wrote: [...] > operations, which, I hope is slightly better than boost's version, > which uses a global named mutex...) What's your problem with global named mutexes created lazily on once()'s slow path? Note that are destructed pretty soon. regards, alexander. .