Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 21:06:12 +0200
From: "Johan 't Hart" < jopie64@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Thread events
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Thanks for your replies.

To me boost::condition looks very much like the old event variable, except
that it works together with a mutex. I am now wondering why you should lock
a mutex before waiting for the condition? Is there a rationale about this?

Johan