Re: [Boost-Users] Re: A Quick Question about Threads

From: Paul Grenyer (pjgrenyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-31 15:18:47

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 19:48, Jason Winnebeck wrote:

Hi

> 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.

I'm wasn't sure there was a difference. I've used Critical Sections
before by not mutexes. If they're the same (or similar) so much the
better!

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Paul
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