Threads: New version of rw_lock uploaded to files section

From: dmoore99atwork (dmoore_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-17 16:32:21

A new design and prototype implementation of boost::rw_mutex has been 
uploaded to:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/thread_rw_lock_v2.zip

Features/Shortcomings:

- Four types of explicit scheduling - reader_priority, 
writer_priority, alternating (many reads), and alternating (single 
reads).  Thanks to Dan'l Miller for pointing out both types of 
alternating schemes.

- Implemented completely in terms of existing Boost.Threads primitives

- Interface for a recursive_rw_mutex documented, but implementation 
is not available (yet).

Comments welcome, as always.
Dave