Re: Threads docs updated in CVS

From: williamkempf_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-08-15 19:28:03

--- In boost_at_y..., "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_m...> wrote:
> The repeating pattern
> 
>     {
>       mutex::scoped_lock lock( m );
>       while(condition)
>         cv.wait( lock );
>       action();
>     }
> 
> still bothers me a bit (it'd be nice to have it encapsulated 
somehow) but we
> could live with it.

Well, the preferred method shortens the pattern a little:

{
   mutex::scoped_lock lock(m);
   cv.wait(lock, pred);
   action();
}

It's not really possibly to shorten things beyond this.

Bill Kempf