[Boost-users] Questions about boost.thread

From: Kosta (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-22 02:27:48

Hi!

I have the following questions about boost.thread:

1) Did I miss an abstraction about atomic operations, e.g. for ++, --, 
+=, -=, <, ==, =, ... for uint8_t, uint16_t, uint32_t, ... (something like 
InterlockedIncrement() on WIN32)? I know that I can Mutexes and Locks to 
implement the desired behavior, but I think a more lightweight solution for 
this basic operations should be available, too.

2) How can I change the priority of a boost::thread?

3) boost::shared_ptr<> and boost::weak_ptr<> are not thread safe, are they? 
What is the suggested way to write thread safe implementations of them?

Kosta