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

From: Kevin Atkinson (kevin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-19 11:42:42

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, William E. Kempf wrote:

First off, just in case you didn't realize it, this message was directed at 
one person not the group in general.  I cced it to the list.  I *hate* 
forced reply-to.

> > Are you, or are you not interested in my Lock Classes.  The messages I
> > got  from you is that you are only interested in my lock classes if
> 
> I haven't had a chance to really evaluate anything here.  You'll have to
> give me some more time.

No problem.

> > 1) It is reproposed as an extension to the locking mechanism in Boost
> >    thread.
> > and/or
> 
> I'd say it would at least have to play nice with Boost.Threads.  If *I*
> find the idea interesting, I'd personally lean towards making it part of
> Boost.Threads.  But technically that wouldn't be an absolute requirement
> for it being considered by Boost at large (even if I'd suspect you'd find
> many people interested only if it were part of Boost.Threads).

Well as I said in a previous email my Lock Classes can be used on top 
of any locking mechanism.  I used POSIX locks since that I what I used in 
my project.  But by Mutex class can be substituted by any class that 
offers a lock() and unlock() methods or the equivalent of them.

> > 2) It is reworked to somehow be an extension of the smart pointer
> >    concept, even though it has very little relation to smart pointers.
> 
> I haven't looked at this at all, so I can't comment too much.  But there's
> a lot to be said for having a "locking_ptr" concept, which may be why
> people are advocating it here.

Well as I said before, as far as I know, the only type of pointer like
management that will make sense for a Mutex is a scoped_ptr.  This
concept is already implemented in Boost.Thread and not very interesting.

> and since we're in a crunch time, like Beman and others have pointed
> out, you'll not get that kind of feedback, pro or con, at this point in
> time.

No problem.  I will repost latter if I don't get any serious interest now.
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