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### 961. Various threading bugs #11

Section: 32.5.4 [thread.mutex.requirements] Status: LEWG Submitter: Pete Becker Opened: 2009-01-07 Last modified: 2017-03-01

Priority: Not Prioritized

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Duplicate of: 936

Discussion:

32.5.4 [thread.mutex.requirements] describes required member functions of mutex types, and requires that they throw exceptions under certain circumstances. This is overspecified. User-defined types can abort on such errors without affecting the operation of templates supplied by standard-library.

[ Summit: ]

> Move to open. Related to conceptualization and should probably be tackled as part of that.

[ 2009-10 Santa Cruz: ]

> Would be OK to leave it as is for time constraints, could loosen later.

> Mark as NAD Future.

[2017-03-01, Kona]

SG1: Agreement that we need a paper.

Proposed resolution: