Re: [boost] Idiot-proof mutex [was: RFC standard proposed mutex, read-write mutex , condition]

From: Frank Mori Hess (fmhess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-25 09:39:33

On Friday 24 August 2007 09:57, Phil Endecott wrote:
> In the same vein, I have sometimes considered making the use of these
> primitives even more idiot-proof by bundling together a mutex,
> condition and the variable that they protect:
>
> template <typename T>
> class locked {
>    mutex m;
>    condition c;
>    T v;
> };

You might be interested in this paper, which describes a nice way of 
wrapping an object so a mutex in the wrapper is always locked when 
accessing the object's member functions.
 
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/wrapper.pdf

-- 
Frank