boostorg / boostorg/interprocess

blocked in message_queue::timed_receive

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Description

I'm using boost_1_89_0 & boost::interprocess::message_queue for inter-process communication. The receiver calls timed_receive to receive messages with a timeout set to 100 milliseconds. It works correctly most of the time, but occasionally it gets blocked, meaning timed_receive does not return.

```
boost::interprocess::message_queue *msg_queue;
// ...
boost::posix_time::ptime timeout = boost::posix_time::microsec_clock::universal_time() + boost::posix_time::milliseconds(100);
bool ret = msg_queue->timed_receive(buf, 8192, recvd_size, priority, timeout);
```

I checked the call stack, and it is blocked at the following location:

boost\interprocess\sync\detail\common_algorithms.hpp

```
template
void try_based_lock(MutexType &m)
{boost::interprocess::message_queue
if(!m.try_lock()){
spin_wait swait;
do{
if(m.try_lock()){
break;
}
else{
swait.yield();
}
}
while(1);
}
}
```

I stepped through the code and found that `m.try_lock()` keeps returning false.

Thanks.

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