Re: [Boost-users] How to manually lock and unlock a mutex?

From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-29 12:11:35

scoped_ptr would be more appropriate I think.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of 
> Jason Stewart
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 10:01 AM
> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] How to manually lock and unlock a mutex?
> 
> 
> Try
> 
> void foo()
> {
> 	shared_ptr<scoped_lock> lk;
> 	if (condition)
> 		lk.reset(new scoped_lock(mutex));
> 
> 	do something
> }
> 
> The smart pointer will automatically unlock when it goes out of scope.
> 
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