Re: [boost] Re: Threads

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-08-22 10:39:28

William Kempf wrote:

 >  ...
 >
 >> Another possibility, which I think Beman already suggested, is to
 >> expose the mutex as a smart pointer class with an operator-> that
 >> handles the locking.
 >
 >This is a very old technique.  It can be a useful one, but it doesn't
 >solve all of the problems (mot notably it won't solve the problem of
 >multiple calls on an object needing to occur synchronously).

Could you explain that in a bit more detail?  Sorry to be dense.  Do you 
mean there are some use patterns that require two (or more) member 
functions be called as a unit?  Is that a design problem with the class 
being wrapped?

 >Further, it requires some discipline from the programmer.

I'm missing that too.  The point of the wrapper was that the programmer 
wouldn't have to apply a discipline.

--Beman