Re: [Boost-users] How to manually lock and unlock a mutex?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-29 11:53:44

Christian Henning wrote:
> Hi there, I'm converting over our codebase to make use of the boost
> libs. Is there a way to manually lock and unlock a boost:mutex? Or, is
> there a conditional lock available? I know there is
> boost::mutex::scoped_lock that does it automatically.
> 
> Here is code example that, I think, requires manual locking:
> 
> void foo()
> {
> 
> if( condition )
>   oMutex.lock;
> 
> do something
> 
> 
> if( condition )
>   oMutex.unlock;
> 
> }

void foo()
{
    mutex::scoped_lock lock( oMutex, condition );
    // do something
}