Re: [boost] Re: Draft of generation 2 thread class

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-19 00:10:06

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From: "bill_kempf" <williamkempf_at_[hidden]>

> I hesitate to say this because I don't want to argue the point too 
> much since I mostly agree with the idea in general.  However, 
> allocating it on the stack will be no more disastrous (probably less 
> so) then sharing it across threads.  In other words I'd envisioned 
> the usage to be like that of the scoped_lock classes, meant to be 
> used on the stack and never shared between threads.  The user can 
> violate this, but if they do it's a simple programming error.  We 
> can't prevent them from shooting themselves in the foot.  

In this case, sure we can. Shouldn't we, just on principle?