[boost] Re: Re: Singleton

From: Pavel Vozenilek (pavel_vozenilek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-11 19:37:15

"Jason Hise" wrote:

[snip]
> I don't think it is necessary for the library itself to be multi-threaded. 
> I think it just needs to have a hook that allows client code to make it 
> thread safe.  The interface for such a hook would be the only thing 
> provided (the default single threaded policy defining all the usable 
> methods and leaving them all blank), and the client could then implement 
> an OS specific thread safety policy and pass it in.  A dependency on a 
> whole threading library doesn't seem like a good idea for something that 
> only some clients might want.
>
Maybe it could have threading policy, defaulting  to the
same mechanism shared_ptr uses, other options being
no-locking and user-locking.

/Pavel