Re: [boost] [thread] Interest in a locking pointer and lockable concept

From: Phil Endecott (spam_from_boost_dev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-24 12:13:58

Frank Mori Hess wrote:
> I'm not clear on 
> what the advantage of passing a LockableRef would be over just passing a 
> plain reference to a Lockable?

The Lockable that I have is a Lockable< array<int,100> >.  I need 
something like a Lockable<int> to pass to the function, because the 
function is only interested in part of the protected data.  I want some 
way to reference the "parent" Lockable's mutex and a portion of its 
data (element of array, field of a struct etc.)

Phil.