POSIX based Timer class, occasional crash

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Date: 09/28/05 

Date: 28 Sep 2005 12:15:03 -0700

Here's what I've got.

I've got a Timer class and a TimerClient base class. The Timer class
maintains a mapping between the timer-id and information such as the
number of times to fire the timer, timer attributes, a pointer to the
client, and a pointer to a client specific "payload" that gets
delivered to the client with the timeout message. The Timer class is a
singleton, and it's a wrapper for POSIX timer functions
(timer_create, timer_settime, timer_delete). It's access to its
internal map is controlled via a pthread_mutex.

Every once in a while an application that is using the timer crashes,
and I am unable to figure out what might be happening. Any insight
will be appreciated.

I have posted the source to comp.sources.d

Thanks,
Gus

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