Re: [boost] Re: mutex_traits<>

From: Jeremy Siek (jsiek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-31 10:54:07

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, bill_kempf wrote:
willia>
willia> Making lock() operations easily accessible is likely to lead to
willia> newbie mistakes.  Not exposing them at all makes it
willia> difficult/impossible to extend the library, such as with a lock_ptr<>
willia> concept.

Whatever mechanism we decide on, the name should indicate the fact that
newbies shouldn't use it. For example, mutex_access_private might be a
good name.

How about make this a wrapper class with member functions that forward to
the real mutex, and this wrapper class is declared as a friend by all the
real mutex classes.

Cheers,
Jeremy

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