Re: [boost] [thread] is there an interest on this unique_to_shared_mutex_adapter class?

From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-30 09:45:03

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On Friday 30 May 2008 06:40 am, Anthony Williams wrote:
> > It would also be possible, I think, to make an adapter that actually
> > creates a shared mutex from a normal one.  I've never had to write a
> > read/write mutex but I guess that this is how they are implemented
> > internally.
>
> It's a bit more complicated than that. boost::shared_mutex is
> implemented on top of boost::mutex and boost::condition_variable for
> pthreads: take a look.

Hmm, so it looks like it would be straightforward to convert the pthread 
implementation of shared_mutex into an adapter that can convert an arbitrary 
mutex type (conforming to the boost.thread Lockable concept) into a shared 
mutex, by turning its boost::mutex into a template type?
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