[boost] Re: [boost::thread] locks, exceptions and assertions

From: Russell Hind (rhind_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-21 11:25:22

Glen Knowles wrote:
> 
> That is a decision that tends to end with the library author. One thing 
> that may make the specific case of relocking different is that the cause 
> is likely a race condition - something that won't show up in normal 
> testing.
> 

but scoped_lock is intended to be used in local scope, IIUC.  You don't 
share the lock, you share the mutex.  So for this error, it isn't a race 
condition.

Russell