Re: A Quick Question about Threads

From: Jason Winnebeck (yg-boost-users_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-31 13:48:29

Paul Grenyer wrote:
> I've not had a really good look at the docs yet, but there doesn't
> appear to be a Critical Section class. Should I be using the Mutex for
> synchronisation instead?

How do you think mutex and CS differ?  From what I understand they 
perform the same purpose.  Win32 CS's are recursive lockable, I believe 
that is an option or an ability of the boost mutex as well.  I wouldn't 
be surprised if it was implemented as CS's in Win32.

As for the "is running" query, I'm not sure.  I have to admit I don't 
use boost threads (I have my own wrapper I made before I learned of 
boost), but I'm trying to help answering the simple question when I can ;).

Jason