[Boost-users] Re: You provide gun, I provide foot.

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-07 10:57:17

Markus Schöpflin wrote:
> Rene Rivera wrote:
> 
>> Read the above carefully... It doesn't say there aren't lock/unlock 
>> calls. Only that mutexes don't provide them. You are free to shoot 
>> yourself by manually locking and unlocking "Locks". Which will 
>> lock/unlock the associated mutex.
> 
> 
> But there is no class which models the Lock concept, or is there?

There is..

http://www.boost.org/doc/html/threads/concepts.html#threads.concepts.Mutex

In that section you'll see that there's a M::scoped_lock type that 
implements the ScopedLock concept. And if you continue reading you can 
see that each mutex variant has such a type to correspond to the type of 
  Lock concept they support.

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