Re: [boost] Re: Re: Lock Classes: Does anyone care.

From: Kevin Atkinson (kevin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-19 00:19:03

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:

> > > 1. Does not Boost.Thread already have locking mechanisms
> >
> > The only thing boost threads offer is #1 on my list, that is "The ability
> > to acquire a lock and release it when the object goes out of scope
> > effectively implemented the "Monitor" concept".  Implementing this idea is
> > rather easy and obvious.  It is the other things my classes offer that
> > make it interesting.  The differences should be obvious.
> 
> In any case it should be part of Boost.Thread IMO. You may propose your
> classes as an extension to existent Boost.Thread functionality. 

And if I don't you won't even consider it?  I am at this point trying to
pitch the general idea, not how it should be integrated into boost.  If
people like it I will work on Boost integration.

> > > 2. IMO any locking mechanisms should be implemented in terms of
> smart_ptr
> >
> > This makes absolutely no sense to me, could you please explain your self.
> 
> Look on my other post on the topic

In that fashion it makes sense.  But the only smart_ptr that will make 
any sense is scoped_ptr.  Which will only implement idea #1.  As I said my 
classes offer far more.

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